Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Use manipulatives to make a square. The area of the square is the perfect square. The length of each side is the square root.
- Use manipulatives to make a cube. The volume of the cube is the perfect cube. The length of each side is the cube root.
- Use a multiplication table to identify perfect squares.
- Identify the square root and cube root function button on a calculator.
Number: MAFS.8.EE.1.AP.2a | Category: Access Points |
Date Adopted or Revised: 07/14 |
Cluster:
Work with radicals and integer exponents. (Major Cluster) : Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters. |