This week our sixth grade Math students at both Walton and Luis Munoz Marin are learning about rational and irrational numbers. We started out the year with adding and subtraction integers (positive and negative whole numbers) and then we moved onto fractions, decimals, and percentages including terminating and repeating decimals. Don't forget, students, a repeating decimal CAN be written as a fraction so it IS a rational number!!
Irrational numbers are numbers like π or √2 which cannot be written as a fraction. These numbers continue on forever without repeating or terminating.
Now you know the advanced Math topics that are challenging our 6th graders!
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