Ages 11–13🧮 Mathematics17 verified questions on this shelf

Positive and Negative Numbers

Understand positive and negative numbers as describing quantities with opposite directions or values; use them in context such as temperature, floors in a building, and bank balances

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Question 1 of 3

A point is located at $-\frac{5}{6}$ on a horizontal number line. It moves $\frac{7}{3}$ units to the right. What is the point’s new coordinate?

Question 2 of 3

A point starts at -5 on a horizontal number line. It moves 7 units to the right, then 3 units to the left. What is the point’s final coordinate?

Question 3 of 3

Starting at -3.2 on a horizontal number line, a point moves 5 3/5 units to the right, then 2 7/10 units to the left. What is the point’s final coordinate?

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What a child can do after this Skill

Represent positive and negative numbers on a number line and explain what zero means in context
Add a positive or negative number to any integer using number line reasoning
Subtract a positive or negative number from any integer, understanding that subtracting a negative is equivalent to adding

Curriculum standards this Skill teaches

CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.6 — Rational numbers on the number line and coordinate plane
CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.5 — Use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities
CCSS.Math.Content.7.NS.1 — Add and subtract rational numbers using a number line
NCERT.Class7.Math.RationalNumbers — Rational numbers: representation, operations
ICSE.Class7.Math.RationalNumbers — Rational numbers: representation and operations
ICSE.math.9.PureArithmetic — Pure Arithmetic
KS3.Maths.Num.2 — Ordering Numbers and Symbols
NCERT.Class7.Math.Integers — Integers: operations on positive and negative numbers

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