Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.1A Grade 12 CPI 1

 

Standard: 4.1 - Number and Numerical Operations

 

Strand: C - Estimation

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 -  The student will extend understanding of the number system to all real numbers.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students explore alternative number bases and note their advantages and disadvantages. Binary and hexadecimal systems are of primary interest because of their use in computer programming.

 

·        Students' understanding of real numbers is assessed by asking them to locate rational and irrational numbers on a number line.

 

·        Students find two numbers between any two given real numbers, such as .4222... and .424242...

 

·        Students can give examples of irrational numbers such as 3.010010001 ... or .4323323332 ... .