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Computing With Positive Integers

This document provides information about Roman numerals and positive integers. It discusses how Roman numerals represent numbers and includes some examples. It also covers place value in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and expanded notation. Students are instructed to complete exercises practicing writing numbers in Roman and Hindu-Arabic numerals, estimating and rounding, and order of operations.

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Computing With Positive Integers

This document provides information about Roman numerals and positive integers. It discusses how Roman numerals represent numbers and includes some examples. It also covers place value in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system and expanded notation. Students are instructed to complete exercises practicing writing numbers in Roman and Hindu-Arabic numerals, estimating and rounding, and order of operations.

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COMPUTATION WITH

POSITIVE INTEGERS
Year 7

ROMAN NUMERALS

The Roman Numerals are below.

Number

10

50

100

500

1000

Roman
Numeral

A special subtraction method involved using a specific


order for numbers such as 4, 9, 40, 90 and so on. This
was done to save space. For example, instead of writing
90 as XXXXXXXXX or LXXXX, the Romans wrote it as
XC (100 10 = 90, i.e. 10 subtracted from 100)

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF


ROMAN NUMERALS

EXAMPLES OF ROMAN NUMERALS


1.

2.

Write each of the numbers in Roman Numerals.


a)

b)

15

c)

144

Write each of the numbers in Hindu Arabic.


a)

CCCXLVI

b)

DCXIII

c)

XCIV

QUESTIONS
1.

2.

Write the following number in Roman Numerals

a)

b)

11

c)

99

d)

2014

e)

Your Birth Year

Write the following in Hindu Arabic


a)

XVI

b)

XL

c)

LXII

d)

CXV

e)

XXIX

TO DO:
Grab a piece of blank paper from the teachers desks.
Draw your birth month calendar but instead of using
hindu-arabic numbers use roman numerals. Here is this
years calendar. Make sure it is neat and use a ruler.

PLACE VALUE
The numerals we use today are called HinduArabic numerals. It uses only ten symbols (called
digits).
We can write any whole number, providing we
understand the place value of each digit.
So 4 can mean 4 or 40 or 4000, depending on
its position in the numeral.

EXPANDED NOTATION

3 x 1000 + 2 x 100 + 5 x 10 + 4 x 1 (or 3 x 10 3 + 2


x 102 + 5 x 101 + 4 x 1) is said to be the
expanded form of the basic numeral 3254.

EXAMPLE

1.

Write down the value of the digit 4 in these


numbers.
a)

437

b)

543 910

c)

4589

2.

Write 517 in expanded form.

3.

Write in basic form

TO DO
Ex 1B pg 12
Q4-14
Worksheet- How far can you go? Addition
Worksheet- How far can you go? Subtraction
Worksheet- How far can you go? Division
Worksheet- How far can you go? Multiplication

ESTIMATING AND ROUNDING


POSITIVE INTEGERS
Estimates or approximations to the answers of
problems can be found by rounding numbers to
the nearest 10, 100, 1000 etc.
If the next digit is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 then round down.
If the next digit is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9, then round up.

EXAMPLES
Round these numbers as indicated.
a)

86 (to the nearest 10)

b)

4142 (to the nearest 100)

c)

65 (to the nearest 10)

d)

1232 (to the nearest 1000)

TO DO

Ex 1H pg 37
Q3 7, 10 12, 13c, d, 14

ORDER OF OPERATIONS
Brackets
Indices
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction

EXAMPLES

1.

Use order of operations to evaluate these


expressions.
a)

6 + 10 2

TO DO

Ex 1I pg 41
Q2 6, 8 9, 11, 12

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