Cricket Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I talk to the trees Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Saxon Math introduces perfect squares and the concept of square roots in third grade, but I can't recall using the square root function on a calculator until at least junior high. Anyone else?:bigear: -Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 around 5th grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 My five year old doesn't understand the "Squares" and "Cubes" but they are his favorite to sing off of our Classical Conversations cd. You might have him memorize them this way:-) Carrie:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I'd guess about 4th grade. It's probably mentioned briefly with multiplication in 2nd/3rd, but I don't think it's actually done til 4th and 5th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenS Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 There's a cute picture book called "Sea Squares" if you want an early introduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Someone recently mentioned their 3rd grader learning about them. We are in 4B of Singapore and we haven't gotten to any of that yet. At least not that I remember! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runninmommy Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Someone recently mentioned their 3rd grader learning about them. We are in 4B of Singapore and we haven't gotten to any of that yet. At least not that I remember! My son is going through it now and he is doing Saxon 3. It is at the very basic level though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 If I remember my math differences correctly, Singapore is a mastery based program and since the squares are not going to be mastered until I'm guessing 6th grade it wouldn't be introduced. Saxon is a spiral/repetitive approach that slowly teaches everything. So that could be why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Eventually? LOL I think it was in 5th or 6th for our older kids, but not sure. They learn it at some point and we're homeschooling for the long haul so if they get to it eventually--success! :tongue_smilie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Saxon math introduced them briefly in 3rd grade (numbers that are perfect squares, multiplication, square roots - it all goes together). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 My nephew memorized them in school in 3rd grade. I don't know how well he actually understood them, though. My ds was in 4th at the time, and was jealous of his cousin, so I drilled him on them. He knew them in about a week. So, my answer would be, whenever you want them to learn them, teach them, and then they'll know them. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula in PA Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 RightStart Math introduces the concept in level D, so approximately 3rd/4th. We just finished those lessons this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Math-U-See is a mastery program and teaches it in pre-algebra. It lists it as "square root formula" so I believe (based on that and my understanding of the program) that it teaches the entire concept at that time rather than just having the students memorize perfect squares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Défi-Mathématiques introduces them in first grade. If you use 16 snap cubes, you can do a square of 4x4. Hence 16 is the square of 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaof2andtwins Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 CLE introduces them at the end of 4th grade. I don't think Rod and Staff introduces them until 7th and definitely in 8th. Jennie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Well, technically, they learned them with their multiplication facts in 1st (and 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 5th...) but we didn't really get to finding a square root you haven't memorized until we did factoring (6th). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 curious Well, I looked through my Saxon stuff, and they are introduced to the squares with the intro to multiplication in Saxon 3. Square roots (and the relationship between factors and squares, and square roots) is further explored in Saxon 5/4. In Saxon 6/5, they are explored even further and used in more complex problems including finding the square roots of numbers other than the perfect squares. I don't have any of the levels beyond that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree Frog Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 And the zombie strikes again, 12 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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