Line Ups

Begin with a talk about opposites, show an entertaining and educational homemade video called The Number Line Dance, and then have your class play a game in which they place positive and negative integers on a human number line. They...

It's more than just numbers on a line, its an organizational, mental math machine to help learners understand the value of numbers. The tool is handy when introducing positive and negative integers to see their values and relationships....

On this very neat worksheet, baseball fans compare the ages of the players on Dimitri's team and then place them in a line plot. They calculate the centers of measure for the data as well.

This short problem with representing fractions on a number line is more than meets the eye. Labeled only with the numbers zero and 1/4, a number line is used to locate the fraction 2/3. A solution can be found in multiple ways, but young...

Extend your class's ability to represent unit fractions on a number line with this challenging worksheet. Given two number lines, one labeled with zero and 1/4, the other with zero and 5/3, students must accurately locate the number one...

Study reflection and lines of symmetry with charts and mirrors! A set of interesting geometric worksheets take kids through a mathematical looking glass with activities about polygons, positive and negative numbers, and geometric patterns.

Organization is the best way to make sure that ratios are set up correctly to be proportional. This video reviews how to solve ratio problems with addition and multiplication, shown in more detail in the prior two videos of this series,...

Line up this lesson when introducing symmetry to your young mathematicians. Watch how two figures are introduced to different ways of folding and identifying whether or not they are actually symmetrical. Finish the lesson with a multiple...

Use a number line to show your learners the relationship between two negative numbers. The number line allows them to visualize which number is greater and all the possible answers that are less than that number. Introduces the topic of...

This first video in a seven-part series introduces opposites with a number line and shows the relationship to zero. It uses vertical and horizontal number line to show opposites. It quickly references that -(-24) means the "opposite of...