1. Exploring Real Numbers Section 1-3

2. Questions What are whole numbers? Can you give me an example? What are integers? Can you give me an example? What is the difference between the two?

3. Notes

4. Question What are rational numbers? What are rational people?

5. Notes Rational Numbers are numbers which can be written as a/b where b doesn’t equal 0. A rational number has either a terminating decimal, like 6.25 Or has a repeating decimal like 3.3

6. Are they Whole, Natural, Integers, Rational?

7. Question What are irrational numbers, what are irrational people? Do you know any?

8. Notes How about pi? Irrational Numbers are those who continue towards infinity with no discernable pattern. They are non-repeating and non-terminating. What would be any example? Are there any famous examples?

9. Notes Real numbers are the set of all rational and irrational numbers.

10. Question Is the statement a true statement? Everyone who lives in Fife Lake is a Michigan State fan.

11. Notes Counterexample is one example needed to prove a statement false.

12. Question Can you come up with counterexamples to the following statements? Mr. Kendall is the tallest teacher in the school. The Detroit Lions are the best football team in the NFL. Everyday this week has been colder then 70 degrees.

13. Notes

14. Absolute Value is the distance on a number line away from zero.