February 8, 2008

Today we learnt about Real Number Stuff. We did questions from the overhead with groups.
Some examples of questions were:
State wheather each of the following is always true, sometimes true, or never true.
The sum of a rational number and an irrational number is:
a) Positive: Sometimes True
b) Irrational: Always True
c) A fraction: Never True
d) Rational: Never True
e) Negative: Sometimes True
f) A whole number: Never True

If you took the absolute value of every number in each of the following sets of numbers, which set of numbers would you obtain?
a) Integers: Whole numbers
b) Negative integers: Natural numbers
c) Whole numbers: Whole numbers
d) Real numbers: Positive real numbers and zero
I learnt alot this day ha thanks to Ms. Remple she gave us no homework!