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The Closure
Property
Using Tiles
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In terms of a non-mathematical
example that students might have fun
working with, define the combination
of two colors to be the color you get when
the two colors are mixed together.
Math As A Second Language
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To extend the whole numbers so that they will be closed with respect
to subtraction, we had to invent the integers (the whole numbers and the
negative whole numbers). In the language of integers, the whole number 1 is
written as +1 and read as positive 1 while its opposite is written as -1 and
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In particular
The Closure Property For Addition
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closure
addition
multiplication