Name
Date
DIRECTIONS: Step only on
perfect squares (a whole-number square root). Go across or down.
The wrong ones are within 3 of a square. Know your squares to 22².
| START42↓ | √25✗ | 34 | √49 | 83 | 80 |
| 16 | 12 | 363 | 440 | 255 | 227 |
| 212 | 170 | 199 | 287 | 257 | √25 |
| √256 | 172 | 146 | 147 | 398 | 12 |
| √400 | 122 | 326 | 327 | 98 | 170 |
| √361 | 122 | 192 | 22 | 182 | FINISH256 |
Done for you 42 = 16 ✓ → 16 = 4 × 4 ✓. √25 = 5 ✗ not that way. Carry on from there.
Write the squares you stepped on, each with its root.
42 (4) → 16 (4) →
- Which was the largest square number on your route, and what is its root?
- Pick a square you could NOT step on. Name the two perfect squares it sits between.
- A right-angled triangle has short sides of 5 and 12. The square on the long side is 169. How long is it, and how did the maze help?