Ontario · Grade 8
G8.B1.2
Grade 8 — Describe, compare and order numbers in the real number system (rational and irrational numbers), separately and in combination, in various contexts.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Decide whether a number is rational or irrational and explain why.
- Convert a fraction to a terminating or repeating decimal, and a repeating decimal back to a fraction.
- Approximate an irrational number such as sqrt(10) or pi and place it between two rationals.
- Order a mixed set of fractions, decimals, roots and pi from least to greatest.