Chapter 2

Negative Numbers & The Number Line

6th Grade: Chapter 2 Outline

Week 5 - Week 6

Essential Questions:

  • How are negative numbers used in real world situations?
  • How are negative numbers and positive numbers related?

Content:

Students will know and understand:

    • Negative numbers in the real world.
    • Negative on a number line.
    • Inequalities.
    • Order of positive and negative numbers.
    • Absolute value.
    • Opposites.

Skills:

Students Will:

    • Use positive and negative numbers in real world situations.
    • Represent negative number on a number line
    • Write inequalities using < and >.
    • Interpret statements of the order of negative and positive negative numbers.
    • Write absolute value of a number.
    • Interpret real world situations.

Upon completion of Unit 2:

  • 6.NS.C.6. Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.
  • 6.NS.C.6a. Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., –(–3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite.
  • 6.NS.C.7. Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
  • 6.NS.C.7b. Write, interpret, and explain statements of order for rational numbers in real-world contexts.
  • 6.NS.C.7c. Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on the number line; interpret absolute value as magnitude for a positive or negative quantity in a real-world situation.
  • 6.NS.C.7d. Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from statements about order.