Activity 1. Read and solve the problem
Peppo just bought a puppy and planned to construct a playpen for it. In the backyard, he has an
empty square land area tht measures 16 square meters. He need to put a fence around it so that the little
dog will be secured every time it plays.
Questions:
1. What math concept will help you solve the problem?
2. How will the knowledge of perfect square numbers and square roots
help you in determining the correct size of the fence?
3. Is there another way of solving the problem?
You see from the activities that finding square roots are useful in real life.
What are square roots? How do we get the square root of a number?​