Develop strategies for ordering positive and negative numbers on a number line from least to greatest.
[i]Answer these open ended questions on your own or with others to form deeper math connections. [/i]
How do you go from 0 to -6?
How do you go from 0 to -35?
What do you notice about negative numbers as they move further away from zero?
Which one is bigger: -35 or -50? And why?
Directed numbers are numbers with direction. Negative and positive numbers can be expressed in direction. You will notice that negative numbers are on the left hand side of 0 and positive numbers are on the right hand side.