Whole Numbers

Background 

From the development of the Counting/Natural Numbers and the realization that 0 could and should be a number as well, we get a set of numbers that represents a small but significant shift in how we can express numbers.

Question 

What are the Whole Numbers?

Answer 

Whole Numbers are the Counting/Natural Numbers and include 0, and so they are 0, 1, 2, 3,... on to infinity.

Analysis  

There's not much to add here in terms of what the Whole Numbers are over and above what's been said above. The Number Line now includes the number 0:
























Vocabulary:

• Counting/Natural Numbers - The set of numbers that starts with 1 and increases by 1 (1, 2, 3, 4,...)

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Where might you have come from? 

Fact-orials Index

Numbers:

• Counting/Natural Numbers

Graphing:

• Number Line

Where might we go?

Numbers:

• Negative Numbers
• Integers
• Prime and Composite Numbers
• Variables 

Operations with different kinds of numbers:

• Addition, Subtraction, and Whole Numbers
• Multiplication, Division, and Whole Numbers
• Exponentials and Whole Numbers

Associated Operations:

• Multiples