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Discovering Integers

  • Grade 6
  • Mathematics
  • Numbers

Description

In this activity, students explore the world of integers and discover negative numbers. Using situations from their daily lives, such as looking up temperatures, students learn to read and represent whole numbers on horizontal and vertical number lines. In addition, students compare and order whole numbers.

Learning goals

  • I represent whole numbers using tools.
  • I compare and order positive and negative integers.

Vocabulary

  • integers
  • relative integers
  • positive integers
  • negative integers
  • a numerical line
  • a thermometer