Covers the fundamental characteristics and rules that apply to whole numbers, such as commutative and associative properties.
What students will learn
- By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
- Define whole numbers and distinguish them from natural numbers.
- State and illustrate the closure property of whole numbers under addition and multiplication.
- Demonstrate the commutative and associative properties of whole numbers using arithmetic examples.
- Apply the distributive property of multiplication over addition and subtraction to simplify computations.
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