Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Use a manipulative to demonstrate a negative number.
- Mark numbers on a number line to determine which is greater.
- Identify the rule that a number with no sign or + sign is always greater than a number with a – sign.
- Show the difference in positive and negative numbers on a number line.
Number: MAFS.6.NS.3.AP.7a | Category: Access Points |
Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 |
Cluster:
Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers. (Major Cluster) : Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters. |