*Understand the concept of negative numbers and that they are used along with positive numbers to describe quantities
*Compare and order integers.
*Compare and order rational numbers.
*Understand the concept of absolute value
*Plot and refl ect ordered pairs in all four quadrants of a coordinate plane.
*Draw polygons in the coordinate plane and find distances between points in the coordinate plane.
*Write inequalities and represent solutions of inequalities on number lines.
*Write and solve inequalities.