Placing Negative Numbers On A Number Line

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...

Even at this age, negative numbers can be a bit confusing. Preteens envision unequal numbers on a number line and relate their relative positions, an exercise that is particularly helpful with those negative numbers. Word cards and quiz...

Contest winner? Use this story about winning tickets to an NFL football game to plot numbers on a number line. Identify positive and negative values in the story and use the worksheet provided to plot out temperature, altitude, and money...

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...

Young mathematicians dive into the number line to discover decimals and how the numbers infinitely get smaller in between. They click the zoom button a few times and learn that the number line doesn't just stop at integers. Includes a...

Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory instructional activity teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare...

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...

What does opposite mean? Ask your mathematicians and you will get a multitude of answers. The video shows learners that opposite means having a position on the other or further side of something, in this case zero, and are an equal...

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...

Once your learners have practiced converting fractions to decimals and vice versa, introduce plotting on a number line. The sixth video of a seven-part series takes converted fractions and decimals and shows their relationship to one...