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.