The document discusses radicals and square roots. It defines a square root as the positive number that, when squared, equals a given positive number. It provides examples of calculating square roots of numbers from 0 to 121. It notes that equations of the form x^2=c have two solutions: x=√c or x=-√c if c is positive. The document emphasizes memorizing the square roots of small numbers and using those to estimate other square roots. It also provides an example of solving the equation x^2=25.