TLF ID A004131
This unit of work focuses on square and cubic numbers. Students define and use exponent notation to write the square and cube operations; identify and recall square and cube numbers to at least 20² and 10³; evaluate squares and cubes of positive integers; evaluate square and cube roots of positive integer perfect squares and cubes; determine the two consecutive integers square and cube roots of non-perfect squares and cubes will lie between; evaluate expressions involving the four operations and squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots, including the use of brackets, fraction bars, and vinculums with positive integers, resulting in positive integers, including consideration of the field axioms for addition and multiplication (associative, commutative, identity, inverse, distributive); rich task on integers and square numbers.