Number System
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Download: Little Subset Teacher Guide.pdf
Give me a number that’s rational
Like any fraction that hurts
Accepting positive or negative
Are you ready…for two thirds?
Or I’ll take the terminating decimal
.15, it will be
If it’s repeating, it’s sensible
So How about, .333333333
Chorus:
Hey little subset, I’m a real number
The big super-set, rational and irrational
Hey smaller subset
You call this place an integer?
It’s bigger than the whole numbers
and counting without the zeros
A rational subset are integers
They walk this number line
Go both directions from zero
They go left, they go right
Now, take the positive integers
And let’s give them a name
zero, 1,2,3,4,5 etc…
That’s the whole number game
Bummed irrational numbers
Feel such heavy shame
They’re real, but that’s just not the same
They envy subsets that complain
So they complain
blah blah blah blah blah
We can’t be written as fractions
Else we’d be rational
We don’t repeat and/or terminate
Like Pi, 3.14159265…
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I am using and adding your songs to the wiki- with your permission of course. I am also wondering if I can send you ideas (if you would like any)for some elementary songs that fit our modules. We can talk about what you would need (I was thinking- key vocabulary and concepts). Thanks again
Murph
Thanks so much for you website. A friend showed it to me and it is such a blessing to include in the classroom!