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Cut the Knot!: What Is a Number? HandoutCut the Knot!: What Is a Number? Handout
Publisher
Cut the Knot
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9th - 10th
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Math
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Handouts & References
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Lexile Measures
1200L
Handout

Cut the Knot!: What Is a Number?

Curated by ACT

Casual and clear but definitely upper-level discussion of rational, real, imaginary, and several other types of numbers. Links to related sites.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

complex numbers, imaginary numbers, irrational numbers, numbers, rational numbers, real numbers, square numbers, transcendental numbers, triangular numbers

Additional Tags

algebraic, mathematical language, numbers mathematical language formula, perfect numbers, problem representation, surreal numbers, whole number, numbers, mathematical language and formulas

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

HSN-RN.B.3

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