Resource 6: Examples of Activity 3

Adapting Exercise 1.6 (p. 26 in NCERT textbook Class IX, Chapter 1)

Exercise 1.6

1. Find: (i) (ii) (iii)
2. Find: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) 125 times negative one divided by three
3. Simplify: (i) two times two divided by three postfix times postfix times (ii) open one divided by three cubed close super seven (iii) divided by (iv) postfix times

Adapt by asking the students these additional questions:

  • What is the same and what is different in the methods for solving these questions?
  • Make up two additional parts for Questions 1, 2 and 3 above. One of these questions has to be easy and one has to be hard. Make sure you can work out the solution yourself!

Adapting Exercise 1.2, Question 1 (p. 8 in NCERT textbook Class IX, Chapter 1)

Exercise 1.2

  1. State whether the following statements are true or false. Justify your answers.
    • i.Every irrational number is a real number.
    • ii.Every point on the number line is of the form Square root of m , where m is a natural number.
    • iii.Every real number is an irrational number.

Adapt this exercise by asking the students these additional questions:

  • How do you know you are right?
  • Now try and convince your partner of the opposite of what you think are the correct answers for Question 1.

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