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Mathematics - Secondary Curriculum Mathematics Grade 8
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Strand: NUMBER SYSTEM (8.NS)

Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers (Standards 8.NS.1-3).

Standard 8.NS.1

Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.


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