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STUDENT INTRODUCTION – THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM

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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STUDENT INTRODUCTION – THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM

TO THE STUDENT:

The study of the real number system is the last number system to be developed in your junior high school mathematics program. This is a very important number system and therefore we are going to try and make it as interesting and enjoyable as possible in the hopes that you will understand it quite thoroughly.