Types of Numbers

The numbers {0, 1, 2, 3 ...} etc. There is no fractional or decimal part; and no negatives. Example: 5, 49 and 980

• Whole Number
• Integer
• Counting Number
• Decimal Number

___________ are like positive and negative numbers ... but still no fractions allowed! So, integers can be negative {-1, -2,-3, -4, -5, … }, positive {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … }, or zero {0}

• Integers

• Counting Numbers

• Whole Numers

• Irrational Numbers

• Decimal Numbers

______________ __________________ (or Natural Number) Any number you can use for counting things: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... (and so on). Does not include zero. Does not include negative numbers. Does not include fractions or decimals (such as 0.95 or 1.3)

Any number that can be put exactly on a number line. The word comes from "ratio". Examples: ½, 0.75, 1, 2.12, -6.6, and 3.456456456 (which is

• Rational Number

• Irrational Number

• Whole Number

• Integer

• Natural Number

Means how far a number is from zero. It's always a positive number. |-4| = 4

A decimal number that has digits that repeats forever. Examples: 1/3 = 0.333... (the 3 repeats forever) or 1/7 = 0.14285714285... (the "142857" repeats forever)

• Terminating Decimal

• Irrational Number

• Integer

• Counting Number

• Repeating Decimal

Comparing 2 numbers with < or > or =

A decimal goes on forever without repeating. Example: Pi, 8.295816

• Repeating Decimal

• Terminating Decimal

• Irrational Number

• Rational Number

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All types of numbers we normally use, such as 1, 15.82, -0.1, 3/4, etc…

They are positive or negative, large or small, whole numbers or decimal numbers.

• Integers

• Whole Numbers

• Rational Numbers

• Irrational Numbers

• Real Numbers

A decimal number that has digits that do not go on forever. (It ends.) Examples: 0.25 or 3.0375

• Terminating Decimal

• Repeating Decimal

• Irrational Number

• Integer

• Whole Number