Learn to check squares of any number - Easy method

How to check squares of any number

What is squaring?

Squaring is a result of a number after multiplying itself. For example 5 square is 25.

Uses of squaring a number

Squaring helps with all sorts of math problems - such as long multiplication, area, solving investigations and finding the square root.

How to find squares of numbers

Squaring a number till 20 might be easy. But what with numbers like 99 or 88 or 61... We find it a bit hard to find the squares of these numbers. So you can use this method to find squares of numbers (2 - digit only) easily.

Process of finding squares

Step 1: Let’s first take any two-digit number, for example 67.
Step 2: Keep 3 dashes (as shown).

Step 3: Then find out the square for number 7. The square for 7 is 49.

Step 4: Carry over number 4 (as shown in the figure).

Step 5: After that find out the square of 6. The square for 6 is 36.

Step 6: Next step is you have to just multiply 6 x 7 x 2. The answer will be 84.

Step 7: Then you have to add 4 (carry over) to 84.

Step 8: Then carry over the 8 of 88.

Step 9: Add this 8 to 36.

Step 10: Write like this shown in the figure.

Therefore 67² will be 4489.