Play on Numbers

A Play on Numbers

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