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AN ACTIVE LEARNING UNIT ON REAL NUMBERS

July, 1970

DALE FISHER

Appendix A from “A Feasibility Study on Active Learning With Real Numbers” an M.Ed. thesis completed by Dale Fisher in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Reprinted with permission of the author by the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association March, 1971

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Do you remember the mathematics unit in which you learned how to find the area of a square figure? For example, what would be the area of a square tile with sides of length 12 inches?