A Play on Numbers

 

 

A Play on Numbers by Eugene Maier

 

Author's note: This work is the result of my effort to develop a cohesive view of elementary mathematics that could inform my teaching and writing and provide me with a coherent story line. I present my views here as a sequence of scenes with commentary.

SCENE 1: The Counting Numbers
SCENE 2: Adding Counting Numbers
SCENE 3: Subtracting Counting Numbers
SCENE 4: Multiplying Counting Numbers
SCENE 5: Dividing Counting Numbers
SCENE 6: The Integers
SCENE 7: Adding & Subtracting Integers
SCENE 8: Multiplying & Dividing Integers
SCENE 9: Fractions
SCENE 10: Equivalent Fractions
SCENE 11: Adding/Subtracting Fractions
SCENE 12: Multiplying/Dividing Fractions
SCENE 13: Decimals
SCENE 14: Decimal Operations
SCENE 15: Decimal Equivalents of Fractions
SCENE 16: Squares and Square Roots
SCENE 17: The Real Numbers
SCENE 18: The Complex Numbers
EPILOGUE: Completeness