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Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi was a Muslim Arab mathematician. He wrote the earliest surviving book on the positional use of the Arabic numerals around 952. It is especially notable for its treatment of decimal fractions.

EXACT REPRESENTATIONS

What makes a number rational or irrational?

Key questions

  1. Can we relate fractions to their decimal equivalents?

  2. Can we work with square roots?

  3. What are surds?

  4. How can we simplify a surd?

4 lessons

Specification detail

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Literacy

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  • stories that accompany or intertwine

  • stories that introduce

  • stories that explain

  • stories that ask a question

  • stories that entertain

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger

Brahmagupta

Al-Uqlidisi

Introduce...

Title - Key questions

is it rational - 2, 3

surd or not a surd - 2,3

surds - is it or is it not - 3

squaring the square - 2,3

Develop..

Title - Key questions

surds pyramid - 3,4

simplifying surds visual - 4

simplify surds card sort - 4

surds spiders - 4

surds mulitplication build up - 4

simplifying - 4

square number patterns - 2

manipulating surds - 3,4

rationalising the denominator - 4

multiplication madness - 3,4

mulitplication squares - 3,4

irrationals A - 3

irrationals B - 3

irrationals C - 3

irrationals D - 3

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