One mathematical shape that every student is familiar with is the square. As well as being a shape, squaring is also a procedure that can be applied to a number or algebraic letter. When we square a ...

A root is the opposite of a power. The root of a number is another number that can be multiplied by itself to get the first number. As 2 squared is 4, then a square root of 4 must be 2: \(2^2 = 4\).