Jessica+B+and+Carmen

S Q U A R E  R O O T S .

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 * By **** Jessica
 * and **** Carmen **

>Parent Information ! For unproject, we have chosen to do Square Roots. In order for you guys to easily understand what square roots are, we're either going to make up a song, a movie, a quiz or a comic book. What we'll be explaining to you for the "Parent Information" part is ...
 * What is a square root?
 * The Mullet.
 * Perfect Squares
 * The Perfect Square Chart
 * An example of finding the perfect square (in fraction form)

Before you look at anything, turn up the volume for this important clip.

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Square roots are numbers that you multiply by itself to get a number. Mr.Harbeck showed us a strategy called the "mullet".
 * __Square Roots__**

**__The Mullet__**

  

Here's another example



Here's a real life mullet we'd like to introduce you to.




 * To explain it better, we're going to describe to you what perfect squares are.**__
 * Perfect Squares**. __ The perfect squares are the squares of the whole numbers. Perfect squares up to the number 100 are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81 and 100. The reason why they are perfect squares is because if you multiplied a number from 1 to 10 by itself, the answer would be one of those numbers. (eg. 2x2=4, 6x6 = 36, 9x9=81, etc)



We'll give you an example so it's easier for you to understand.




 * Remember, the square of a number is a number times itself. **<span style="font-size: 90pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Eurostile">


 * <span style="font-size: 90pt; color: rgb(153, 204, 0); font-family: ROARINGFIRE">Review ! **

Lyrics by Carmen Younger and Jessica Bautista Instrumental by Jordin Sparks, "Tattoo" <span style="font-size: 90pt; color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: Eurostile">

Carmen… Carmen… Carmen…

No matter what you teach me now, I’m never comin’ back for more I’ll keep my head on the table Sooner or later, you’re gonna have work a lot more No matter what you do in your life You’ll probably need to learn bout math They’ll keep you from danger Square roots with change that You gotta let your mind set free To do your exam with an easy breeze Sorry, but I’m not gonna do my assigned homework You can’t waste time with the calculator You tried that one, and you finished much later. You need to worry bout it on the exam With not much time, you gotta go with this plan First you need to find the whole--- number You used it once, but you gotta try a new method Subtract the smaller square from the larger one Now here’s the whole-- number, let’s keep going on I’m not sure if I get this, don’t gooo on. But it’s on the review We’ve got to review (We’ve got to review) I’m sick of playing all these games You just can’t ever haaave fun When I look at these problems, I just don’t remember It hurts enough to think about math and how it’s so boring To write this all down… Sorry, but I’ve got to be strong and get this in your mind! Can’t waste time, so get the moood We’re gonna learn about the numerator No need to worry bout this being a hard one You gotta subtract the number from the sma--ller square

(music)..

Heeeey Carmen, you are almost there!

You can’t waste time with the calculator You tried that one, and you finished much later. You need to worry bout it on the exam With not much time, you gotta go with this plan Last you need the denominator It’s the only one that everyone forgets Subtract the larger square from the smaller one Now that was the easy, wasn’t that fuuun? Wasn’t that fuun? Now we are done. We just reviewed. We reviewed square roots


 * Out takes : LOL (It's very hard to keep a straight face singing when you're with your friends)**

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Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject? - Carmen and I chose the concepts we did for this project because that's way we learned it and we thought that if we showed others how we understood it, hopefully others would also understand what we're trying to explain. We also did these concepts because they were easy to undetstand for us and it's just a fun way to learn about square roots by just singing it.
 * <span style="font-size: 28pt; color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-family: Forte">Jessica’s Reflection **

• How do this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far? - This project provides an overview of my best mathematical understanding of what I've learned so far by having many examples, like the mullet concept, the song, the examples. I think it's clear to the people reading this that we know what we're talking about and that we could even put it in a fun way so that they could understand.

• Did you learn anything from this assignment? - Yes, I learned a lot doing this project. Since we haven't done square roots in a while, it refreshed my knowledge and I understood it more. Now that we repeated the information in my head, it's easier to understand and I'll remember it more now in the future if I need it.

Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.) - Yes, this was educationally vaulable to me because like I said on my last question, square roots will be stuck in my head and for the exam it's going to be easy to remember the steps because of the song that we made. Maybe in the future my suggestion is that maybe we could do plays or class presentations to make it more interesting and fun.

** Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject? -Jessica and i chose the concepts for this project the way we did becuase this was they way we were taught square roots in class and it is a very understandable project. • How do this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far? -This project provides an overview of my best mathematical understanding of what i've learned so far with its math work and the examples. Like the square root chart and the perfect squares and how you get them.
 * <span style="font-size: 28pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: Forte">Carmen’s Reflection

• Did you learn anything from this assignment? - Although we took everything we already learned for this project i still learned more about perfect squares and how you get the square roots of numbers. Jessica and ilearned from eachother and sepretly. Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.) - this project was educationally valuable to me becuase this project showed what i know about square roots. i liked this assignment it was a fun way to do whatever you wanted about math.

Timeline**

 * Have parent information completed by May 30.
 * Final Unprojects will be done by Friday June 13th.