REAL NUMBERS

(as opposed to fake numbers?)

Two Kinds of Real Numbers

• Rational Numbers

• Irrational Numbers
 Branching Real Numbers

Real Numbers

Rational Irrational

Now let’s break these

subsets down
further!
 Rational Numbers
A rational number…
• is a real number that can be
written as a ratio (fraction) of
two integers.
• written in decimal form is
terminating (ends) or repeating
(same pattern of numbers).
 Examples of Rational
Numbers
•16 •-8
•1/2 •1.3333…
•3.56 •- 3/4
Can you write 16 as a ratio?
Now try writing -8 as a ratio!
 Irrational Numbers
• An irrational number
• is a number that cannot be
written as a ratio (fraction) of
two integers.
• written as decimals are
non-terminating (never end!) and
non-repeating (no pattern).
 Examples of Irrational
Numbers
• Square roots of • Pi
non-perfect
“squares”

17

What is the square root of 17?

What is another non-perfect square?
 Integers

One of the subsets of rational

numbers

So what do integers branch off of?

 Integers

• Integers are rational numbers

because they can be written as
fraction with 1 as the denominator.

*Remember*
Rational numbers can be written as a
ratio (or in other words, a fraction)
 What are integers?
• Integers are the whole numbers and their
opposites.
• Examples of integers are
6
-12
0
186
-934

What do you notice about these integers?

 Whole Numbers

One of the subsets of rational

numbers and integers

So what do whole numbers branch off of?

 Whole Numbers
• All positive numbers that are
counting numbers plus zero.

• How can you remember that zero

goes with whole numbers?

• Examples: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …
 Natural Numbers

One of the subsets of rational

numbers, integers and whole
numbers

So what do natural numbers branch off of?

 Natural Numbers
• All of your counting numbers

• What numbers do you count with?

 Classify the following
Numbers
• What subset(s) do the following
numbers belong to? Remember they
could belong to more than one!

• 0
• Whole, Integers, Rational, and Real
 Classify the following
Numbers (Con’t)
• 4
• Natural, Whole, Integer, Rational, Real

• -9
• Integer, Rational, Real

• Π
• Irrational, Real
 Classify the following
Numbers (Con’t)
• 3/4 or 0.75
• Rational and Real

• 4
• Natural, Whole, Integer, Rational, Real

• 15
• Irrational, Real