Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Other
Learn That Word: Root Words & Prefixes: Quick Reference
Excellent reference tool listing prefixes and roots together alphabetically along with definitions and examples.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in to Learning: More Roots and Their Families
Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Greek and Latin Roots Introduction
During this mini-unit, students will learn common Greek and Latin roots. Several supplementary resources are provided for students' study beyond the lessons.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Root and Exponents
Test your skills at exponents, root and logarithms. Includes advanced challenges. There are nine levels and the test may be taken with or without a timer.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: 4th & 5th Roots
Radicals are also known as roots. Evaluate high-degree radicals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simplify Square Root Expressions
Practice simplifying expressions with multiple radical terms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Sweet Liberty: Roots of Cooperative Federalism
An in-depth article on the roots of cooperative federalism, written by Dan Meador.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quadratics by Taking Square Roots
Solve quadratic equations of the form (x+a)^2-b=0. These can be solved using square roots. For example, solve (x-5)$2-4=0.
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
Three activities including a matching game, a concentration game, and a word search puzzle for students to use while learning and practicing the meanings of various root words.
OpenStax
Open Stax: American Foreign Policy 1890 1914: Turner, Mahan, and Roots of Empire
Examines the development of American foreign policy in the latter part of the 1800s, and what Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan did to further American imperialistic interests.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Solving Quadratic Equations With Square Roots
Find a quick, concise explanation for how to solve quadratic equations using square roots. An example is given and clearly explained.
OnlineMathLearning.com
Online Math Learning: Factor Polynomials With Complex Roots
A collection of video lessons with example problems and solutions to help students learn how to extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers. Includes interactive widget for working on the modeled problems or trying your own.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Roots With the Remainder Theorem: Lesson 3
This lesson uses the remainder theorem to determine whether a given value of x is a root of a given polynomial. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Roots With The Remainder Theorem."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Retrieving 2/5 of Electro Root
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Jackie and Inez figure out how to break an Electro-Root into 2/5, one of the ingredients for the antidote to Motherboard's virus.
African American Literature Book Club
African American Literature Book Club: Alex Haley
This site provides a concise biography of Haley, the video [12:28] "Alex Haley Interview Roots (Merv Griffin Show 1977)" and links to six of his books.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Square Roots
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find approximate solutions to equations involving irrational numbers.
Other
Newton's Method
Come to this site to discover how the formula for finding the (n+1) approximation for the root using the equations of tangent lines (Newton's Method). The site also explains when Newton's Method fails.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Photosynthesis
Read about photosynthesis, what light and dark reactions are, the structure of a leaf, the conditions needed for photosynthesis to occur, where and how photosynthesis takes place, and how root structure impacts on photosynthesis.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Properties of Square Roots
Find a quick, concise explanation of the properties of square roots. An example is given and clearly explained for each property.
Other
Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
Other
Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Religious Roots of Abolition
A lesson that looks at the role of Christianity in the fight to abolish slavery in the United States.
