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 TAXONOMY OF NUMBERS      Let's talk about the taxonomy of numbers, just like we look into the taxonomy of organisms in biology and fundamentals of molecules chemistry.      All numbers you can think of belongs to the general family of Numbers in mathematics. Among the general family of Numbers, some numbers are Real Numbers while some are Imaginary Numbers.      Within the category of Imaginary Numbers, these are found in taking the square-root of a negative number. The square-root of a -1 is i. Within the category of Real numbers, there are sub-categories: Rational and Irrational Numbers.     Rational Numbers can be defined as the ratio of two Integers, while Irrational Numbers can not be expressed as a ratio of two Integers. Irrational numbers have non- repeating decimals that are non-terminating, meaning they continue forever yet no pattern. E.g √2= 4142135..... No matter how many digit we see, we aren't listing the precise value. Other irrational numbers is π=3.141592.....
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LEARNING THROUGH INTER-DEPENDENCY     Wise teachers know that the purpose of teaching is from dependence to independence through inter-dependency. It is important to be realistic as far as teaching-learning process is concerned. Students will engage faster and better when we take them from the simple to the complex, known to the unknown And of course from the concrete to the abstract. This helps motivation and inspire effective teacher-learner rapport. Our students are like trees in the forest vegetation when they have attained their academic career. They may have started that journey relying on everyone around them, especially their teachers. We often defined education as the process of preparing the dependent child to becoming an independent adult, for his relevance in the society. The above assumed definition is incomplete in its operations without the absolute involvement of the inter-dependency of the individual students to his success and that of others around hi