Rational or Irrational?

This makes for a good follow-up task on rational irrational numbers after the students have been acquainted with some of the more basic properties, asking students to reason about rational and irrational numbers (N-RN.3) in a variety of ways. In addition to eliciting several different types of reasoning, the task requires students to rewrite radical expressions in which the radicand is divisible by a a perfect square.
Resource ID#: 42103 Type: Problem-Solving Task
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Subject(s): Mathematics
Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
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Instructional Component Type(s): Problem-Solving Task
Resource Collection: General Collection

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