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Plot positive and negative numbers on a number line.
Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Match or label points on a number line (i.e., have students label the numbers on a block and match up to the number line).
- Describe negative numbers as numbers less than or to the left of zero on a number line.
- Understand less than zero/more than zero in context (e.g., temperature, ground level).
- Label the numbers from -10 to 10 on a number line.
- Have students place a point on a number on the x- or y-axis and name it.
General Information
Number: MAFS.6.NS.3.AP.6e
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.
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