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?