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Perfect Squares and Square Roots

Strand: Number
Outcomes: 1 and 2

Step 3: Plan for Instruction

Guiding Questions

• What learning opportunities and experiences should I provide to promote learning of the outcomes and permit students to demonstrate their learning?
• What teaching strategies and resources should I use?
• How will I meet the diverse learning needs of my students?

A. Assessing Prior Knowledge and Skills

Before introducing new material, consider ways to assess and build on students’ knowledge and skills related to fractions.

Ways to Assess and Build on Prior Knowledge

B. Choosing Instructional Strategies

Consider the following guidelines for teaching perfect squares and square roots:

• Build on the students' understanding of factors and area to model and recognize perfect squares and square roots.
• Provide a variety of hands-on activities using manipulatives, such as tiles, 1 cm grid paper, rulers and calculators.
• Provide various strategies to estimate and calculate square roots.
• Provide opportunities for students to develop number sense by choosing activities that allow them to use benchmarks to facilitate calculating whole number square roots.

C. Choosing Learning Activities

Learning Activities are examples of activities that could be used to develop student understanding of the concepts identified in Step 1.

Sample Learning Activities
Modelling Square Numbers	Download Activities
Recognizing Perfect Squares	Download Activities
Patterns in Perfect Squares	Download Activities
Determining Square Roots from Factors	Download Activities
Estimating Square Roots of Non-perfect Squares	Download Activities