Unit 1: FRACTIO S A D DECIMALS.

-Rational number. It is any number that can be expressed as a quotient. Examples:

Every rational number, every fraction, when expressed as a decimal number, will be either a terminating or a recurring decimal number. -Terminating or exact decimal. It does not go on forever. You can write down all its digits. Examples:

-Recurring or repeating decimal. It does go on forever. It repeats a block of digits

-Irrational numbers. An irrational number is a number that cannot be written as a simple fraction. For example:

The number Pi shown above never repeats a block of numbers it goes on forever. -Rounding umbers. It is another way of writing a number approximately. We often don't need to write all the figures in a number, as an approximate one will do.

-Standard Form; in a standard form a number is written as A x 10 to the power of N.

- atural numbers are counting numbers from one to infinity. We use the letter N to refer to the set of all natural numbers.

-Whole numbers are counting numbers form zero to infinity.

-Integer numbers are positive numbers and negative numbers, but not fractions or decimals. We use the letter Z to refer to the set of all integer numbers.

- umber line. We use a number line to represent the order of the integer numbers set. Integer numbers are represented in order on the number line.

scar Van Hoorn and Alfonso Salinas

(3 ESO B)