Background Tutorials

• Factors and Greatest Common Factor

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    What's a Factor?

    Factors are a fundamental part of algebra, so it would be a great idea to know all about them. This tutorial can help! Take a look!

• Definitions and Properties of Square Roots

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    What is the Product Property of Square Roots?

    The product property of square roots is really helpful when you're simplifying radicals. This property lets you take a square root of a product of numbers and break up the radical into the product of separate square roots. Check out this tutorial and learn about the product property of square roots!

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    What's a Perfect Square?

    Anytime you square an integer, the result is a perfect square! The numbers 4, 9, 16, and 25 are just a few perfect squares, but there are infinitely more! Check out this tutorial, and then see if you can find some more perfect squares!

• Working with Square Roots

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    How Do You Find the Square Root of a Perfect Square?

    Taking the square root of a perfect square always gives you an integer. This tutorial shows you how to take the square root of 36. When you finish watching this tutorial, try taking the square root of other perfect squares like 4, 9, 25, and 144.

• Rules of Exponents

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    What are Exponents?

    Did you know that another word for 'exponent' is 'power'? To learn the meaning of these words and to see some special cases involving exponents, check out this tutorial!

• Prime Factorization

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    How Do You Find the Prime Factorization of a Number Using a Tree?

    To write the prime factorization for a number, it's often useful to use something called a factor tree. Follow along with this tutorial and see how to use a factor tree to find the prime factorization of a given number.