Irrational Numbers

Have you ever used a calculator and seen a number that just keeps going…and going…without repeating? That’s an example of an irrational number. These

Every number you’ve ever worked with belongs to a special “number family.” When we classify real numbers, we sort them into groups like natural number

Have you ever tried to find the square root of a number, such as 30 or 8, and realized it wasn’t a nice, whole number? That’s because not all numbers

Have you ever tried to figure out the square root of a number like 71 without a calculator? It’s not always neat, like √64 = 8. But you can estimate i

Sometimes we run into numbers that can’t be written as simple fractions. These are called irrational numbers. Square roots, such as √2, and cube roots