Lesson Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. Define a real number;
2. List the sets of numbers that make up the real number system;
3. Describe the sets of numbers in the real number system.
What is a real number?

What are the sets of numbers

that make up the real number
system?

Describe them.
 Practice Classifying Real Numbers
Write the set(s) of real numbers to which each of the following numbers
belong:

1. 0 6.
2. -13 7. -½
3. ¼ 8. 5.6
4. 9. -
5. 10. 8%
 Practice Classifying Real Numbers
Identify the type of number by placing an ‘X’ under the correct heading(s).
Number Natural Whole Integer Rational Irrational Real
-0.75        X   X
34  X  X  X  X   X
𝜋          X X
       X   X

0.6...        X   X
-12      X  X   X
√5          X X
 X  X  X  X   X

√81  X  X  X  X   X
Number Natural Whole Integer Rational Irrational Real
-0.75          
34          
𝜋          
         

0.6...          
-12          
√5          
         

√81