Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Freezing Points
Subtracting negative numbers can be confusing to your middle schoolers. Here, they are able to draw a number line and put their answer in sentence form to check their understanding of negative numbers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Temperatures
Which is colder -12 or -18? Temperature is natural real-world application of ordering rational numbers. It's also fun to talk about the lowest recorded temperature on Earth. Take the time to discuss this inquiry with your class.
Corbett Maths
Enlargements with Negative Scale Factor
How will a scale factor affect a figure—negatively? Using a grid, the narrator of an engaging video performs a dilation with a negative scale factor. The presenter compares a positive scale factor with a negative scale factor to explain...
Arizona Department of Education
Introduction to Integers
Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory lesson teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare single-digit integers.
MathMovesU
Negative Numbers Practice
A collection of nine integer worksheets, middle schoolers practice computing the positive and negative values in a variety of problems. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers are the skills conveyed in these resources.
Curated OER
Mat 0024 Section 1.4: Signed Numbers and Decimals
This activity has a little of everything. Compare fractions, determine if numbers are less than, greater than, or equal to. Then practice lining up the decimals to add and subtract decimal numbers. Then multiply decimals remembering to...
Curated OER
Positive and Negative Numbers
In this positive and negative numbers worksheet, 4th graders compare 3 and -4, put 5 numbers in order from least to greatest, locate 5 numbers on a number line, fill in 6 missing numbers in a set of numbers and answer 1 word problem.
Virginia Department of Education
Exponents
Expand your knowledge of exponents with an activity that promotes critical thinking and comparison skills. Middle and high schoolers compare numbers written in expanded and exponential form and explain their strategies for solving...
Curated OER
Comparing Negative Integers (B)
In this comparing negative integers practice worksheet, students use their math skills to compare 40 pairs of negative integers. Students fill in the 40 blanks with greater than, less than, or equal to symbols.
Curated OER
Number Sense and Numeration: Multiples, Factors and Square Roots
A great resource for any math teacher covering multiples, factors or square roots; this learning exercise walks young mathematicians through the logic behind factoring and square roots with a systematic set of problems which gradually...
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Extending the Number System
Don't feel negative about negative numbers. Individuals extend their knowledge of positive numbers and fractions to rational numbers. They see how to represent negative rational numbers on a number line, learn about opposites and...
EngageNY
Absolute Value—Magnitude and Distance
Do you want to use the resource? Absolutely. Scholars learn about absolute value and its relation to magnitude and distance on a number line. They compare numbers in context by applying absolute value.
Mathed Up!
Ordering Numbers
Young mathematicians order numbers from least to greatest. Number types include whole numbers, decimals, and negative numbers.
Curated OER
Chapter 1 - Objective 1.1 Comparison of Whole Numbers
In this comparison worksheet, students compare positive and negative numbers, identify the opposite of a number, and evaluate absolute value of given numbers. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
Yummy Math
Hot Summer. . . Cold Winter
A table of each state's record temperature reports data that middle schoolers can place on a number line for analysis. A written explanation of how to use this tool and the concept of absolute value are also included. Nine questions are...
Curated OER
Comparing Integers
In this comparing instructional activity, students use the comparing symbols to compare positive and negative numbers. Students complete 20 problems.
Curated OER
Integers - Graphical Representation
In this integers worksheet, 8th graders solve 21 various types of problems to include writing statements given as integers, writing a positive or negative integer for each point on a number line, and arranging integers in order from...
Curated OER
Decreasing Order: Positive and Negative Numbers
In this positive and negative numbers worksheet, 8th graders put 5 integers in order for 10 sets by writing the numbers in decreasing order.
Noyce Foundation
Percent Cards
Explore different representations of numbers. Scholars convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, and then use these conversions to plot the values on a horizontal number line.
Curated OER
Negative Numbers on the Number Line Using the TI-83
In this negative numbers worksheet, students use the TI-83 calculator to compare the value of negative numbers. Students explain in short answer format how they used the calculator to determine their answers.
Curated OER
Comparing Negative Integers
In this math worksheet, students compare negative integers. They place <, > or = in the boxes between negative integers as they make the comparisons in 32 problems.
Curated OER
Quiz: Exponents to Numbers and Compare Exponents
In this exponent activity, students multiply fractions and decimal numbers according to the given power and identify the value as a standard number. The integers contain both negative and positive exponents. This one-page activity...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Math Skiils: Comparing Integers on a Number Line
Here is an attractive assignment that instructs learners how to compare more than one integer on a number line. After the lesson, three practice problems follow. They require learners to place integers on a number line and then order...
Buffalo State
Adding and Subtracting Integers Unit
Just because one integer is larger than another doesn't mean it will make sense right away. Go beyond note taking and show learners, through the use of algebra tiles and a Four-Pan Algebra Balance, how the numbers relate to one another...