Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...

To find the cube root of a number, we have to find out which number when multiplied by itself twice gives that number. This is the same as trying to find out the length of the side of a cube when you ...

Which is 9. So 9 is a square number. Here are some other examples of square numbers. Can you see how all these numbers can be arranged into a square? Which is 64. So 64 is a cube number. Here are some ...