Making sense of irrational numbers - Ganesh Pai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGjr_awePE
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/making-sense-of-irrational-numbers-ganesh-pai (Alternate link)
Publisher, TEDEd, Video, YouTube
Explains Hippasus' proof by contradiction that there exist numbers with are irrational.
26 May 2016 Edit: 16 May 2018
- Topics:
- Measurement, Pythagoras, Number, Rational and Irrational
- The Australian Curriculum
- Number and Algebra, Real numbers, ACMNA186 Year 8 Investigate the concept of irrational numbers, including pi, ACMNA264 Year 10A Define rational and irrational numbers and perform operations with surds and fract
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 8, Number Year 8, AC9M8N01 recognise irrational numbers in applied contexts, including square roots and π
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Number and Algebra, MA5.3-6NA Surds and Indices, Measurement and Geometry, MA4-12MG Length
- NSW Curriculum New
- Number and algebra, Indices, MA5-IND-P-02 Indices C (Path), Measurement and space, MA4-LEN-C-01 Length
- NSW Mathematics Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus
- Functions, MA-F1 Working with Functions, F1.1 Algebraic techniques
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