Check out this free printable perfect squares list of each square number between 1 and 1024. This perfect squares chart is available as both a PDF and editable WORD document. This table of perfect squares will make the perfect addition to your math students’ collection of math reference charts. This printable contains each of the perfect …
Radicals
One of my high school math students’ most used math reference sheets is this free printable factors chart for the numbers from 1 to 100. I give my algebra and pre-calculus students a copy of this 1-100 factors chart at the beginning of the school year, and we end up referencing them a lot. This …
I created this free printable prime numbers chart that features all of the prime numbers under 100 for my Pre-Calculus students to reference while simplifying radicals recently. I think it would be useful for a much wider range of math students, though. My students were looking for a quick way to tell if a number …
I really like this lovely radicals task from Terry Stickels. It simply asks: Which of the following is the smallest? I shared it on twitter, and I loved reading through people’s logical reasoning as they worked through the problem! I found this problem in The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles by Terry Stickels.
I created this like radicals card sort activity a few years ago when I was still teaching Algebra 1. Students are given 25 cards featuring radicals that range from square roots to fourth roots. Some of the radicals are simplified. Others need to be simplified. Students must group the cards into piles of “like radicals.” …
I created this Parts of a Radical Poster several years ago when I was teaching Algebra 1. I wanted to create a visual reminder for my students of the different vocabulary words that describe the different parts of a radical. I wanted to highlight the words coefficient, index, radical symbol, and radicand. I designed this …
I created this simplifying radicals foldable for my Algebra 1 students to glue in their interactive notebooks. Free Download of Simplifying Radicals Foldable
This prime factorization foldable is one of my Algebra 1 students’ most-used resources throughout our radicals unit. I was inspired to create this foldable after one of my eighth graders commented that it would be cool to have something in our notes that gave us every single prime factorization. I took this idea and ran …
I created this prime factorization graphic organizer for my Algebra 1 students to summarize two different methods for finding prime factorization: the factor tree method and the birthday cake method. I teach my Algebra 1 students to simplify radicals through prime factorization because it works no matter what the index of the radical is. This …
Before I teach my algebra students to rationalize the denominator, I try to answer the looming question: why do we rationalize the denominator? I realize that rationalizing the denominator has gone out of fashion as a result of the Common Core State Standards, but the topic is still required by the Oklahoma math standards. I …