{"id":2582,"date":"2013-10-08T20:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:01:49","slug":"math-perfect-cubes-and-cube-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-perfect-cubes-and-cube-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  perfect cubes and cube roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring math, you notice that while square roots are familiar to most people, cube roots are less comfortable for many.\u00a0 The math tutor offers some clarification&#8230;.<\/h1>\n<p>A perfect square is a number like 25 or 49 that you can arrive at by multiplying a number by itself:<\/p>\n<p>5&#215;5=25<\/p>\n<p>7&#215;7=49<\/p>\n<p>A perfect cube is a number like 8 or 125 that you can arrive at by multiplying a number by itself and then by itself again:<\/p>\n<p>2x2x2=8<\/p>\n<p>5x5x5=125<\/p>\n<p>The cube root of a number is what you times by itself, then by itself again, to get that number:<\/p>\n<p>\u221b125 = 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5x5x5=125<\/p>\n<p>\u221b1000=10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10x10x10=1000<\/p>\n<p>You can have other roots as well:<\/p>\n<p>\u221c81=3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3x3x3x3=81<\/p>\n<p>There will be more about roots and powers in upcoming posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, you notice that while square roots are familiar to most people, cube roots are less comfortable for many.\u00a0 The math tutor offers some clarification&#8230;. A perfect square is a number like 25 or 49 that you can arrive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-perfect-cubes-and-cube-roots\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  perfect cubes and cube roots<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}