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A Square Investigation
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A SQUARE INVESTIGATION
Aim: The aim of this investigation is to find any rules, patterns of square numbers. Patterns/ rules will be discussed step by step below.
Firstly a square number is a number multiplied by it. The name becomes apparent if one looks at a diagram of a square.
e.g.
2^2 = 2*2= 4sq units; we say 4 is the square of 2. Hence a square number gives the area of a square.
Method: the first step was to draw the table below. (Explain what each column means, draw a graph).
X NUMBER
X^2 SQUARE
NO. OF TENS
DIFFERENCE
NO. OF UNITS
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
2
4
0
0
4
3
9
0
0
9
4
16
1
1
6
5
25
2
1
5
6
36
3
1
6
7
49
4
1
9
8
64
6
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