Students' Learning Outcomes
At the end of the unit, the students will be able to:
- Explain, with examples, that civilizations throughout history have systematically studied living things [e.g., the history of numbers from Sumerians and its development to the present Arabic system]
- Describe the set of real numbers as a combination of rational and irrational numbers
- Demonstrate and verify the properties of equality and inequality of real numbers
- Apply laws of indices to simplify radical expressions
- Apply concepts of real numbers to real-world problems (such as temperature, banking, measures of gain and loss, sources of income and expenditure)