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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Numbers and Radicals Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review irrational numbers and radicals. Examples are included.
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Other

Nearpod: Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this lesson on irrational numbers, 8th graders explore how to identify and plot irrational numbers.
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to irrational numbers then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rational vs. Irrational Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine whether an expression that is the combination of two rational/irrational numbers is rational or irrational itself. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn Sums of Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Product of Non Zero Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this formative assessment task, students are asked to explain how rational and irrational numbers differ and why the product of a non-zero rational number and an irrational number is irrational....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn: Operations With Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Experiment with sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. Aligns with N-RN.B.3.
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Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Content, suitable for an introductory algebra course, explains the difference between rational and irrational numbers, how to rationalize the denominator, how to evaluate radicals and the square root process. Practice problems included.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ns Comparing Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 8th Standards
For this task, 8th graders are presented with pairs of rational or irrational numbers. They must state which number in the pair is higher and explain their thinking. Aligns with 8.NS.A.2.
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Cut the Knot

What's a Rational Number?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This question is answered by discussing and comparing rational and irrational numbers. For more advanced levels of Algebra, there are sections that discuss different lemmas of rational numbers and give their proofs.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math site explains what it means for a number to be irrational and names various persons who have proven the irrationality of some numbers, the site also gives several numbers who are thought to be irrational yet have not been...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Irrational Approximations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Providing one instructional activity, one practice exercise, and two teacher resources, the information at this website is geared toward young scholars who already understand rational and irrational numbers. The instructional activity...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] By the end of the lesson, students will classify numbers into number families to help understand how to distinguish the difference between rational and irrational numbers. Students will demonstrate this...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: The Evolution of Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses what numbers are and how our understanding of them has evolved over thousands of years, from simple counting to negative numbers and irrational numbers, for example. Includes a set of practice questions where students identify...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Classify Numbers: Rational & Irrational

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice identifying whether numbers are rational or irrational. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Rational / Irrational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum response providing methods to prove that between any two numbers there exist a rational and an irrational number.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Real Numbers

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about real numbers and their important properties with solved examples and practice questions.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Properties of Rational Numbers

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize and identify irrational numbers and the set of real numbers
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Rational or Irrational? That Is the Question

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners will participate in an activity that will help them obtain a feeling of how numbers are related to each other. They will determine whether a number is rational or irrational. Students will also be able to order rational and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum response to request for information on various number sets. Also defined and discussed are integers, natural numbers, whole numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, and algebraic numbers.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Definitions of Rational, Irrational

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum definition and explanation of rational and irrational numbers, the definitions of mathematics is also addressed.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Rational Number

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives an overview of rational numbers, gives interesting facts about the rational numbers including countability and probability of a rational numbers denominator being even. The site also contains related links.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Classify Numbers

For Students 8th Standards
Practice classifying numbers as whole, integer, rational, and irrational. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, to watch a video, or ask for a hint.
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Decimal Expansions

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Saskatchewan's Department of Mathematics and Statistics provides high school students with an online tutorial on decimal expansions. It begins with a focus on decimal representation of real numbers, followed by how this...