Standard 1: Extend knowledge of numbers to negative numbers and develop an understanding of absolute value.

Students are asked about numbers and their opposites.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to graph -4, 0, and 4 on a number line and to explain the relationship between a number and its opposite in terms of the number line.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to interpret an inequality relating two temperatures.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to identify a number’s possible locations on a number line when given the number’s absolute value.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to write integers to represent quantities given in context and to relate the integers with an inequality.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to describe the positions of numbers relative to each other on a number line.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to compare two elevations and their absolute values and then interpret these comparisons within a given real-world context.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given positive and negative fractions and asked to explain their meanings within the context of a problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to use numbers to represent gains/losses and to interpret the meaning of zero in the context of football.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain the meaning of positive and negative decimals within the context of a problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to interpret values given in a chart that represent positive and negative deviations from average rainfall.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the coordinates of graphed points and graph points with rational coordinates on a number line.

Type: Formative Assessment

A two day STEM lesson where students get a hands-on experience understanding positive and negative integers. Students will understand how temperature demonstrations and their own created models are used to visualize positive and negative integers in relation to 0 in real-world settings. Students will summarize their understanding of the relationship between positive and negative integers in relation to 0 for the evaluation of this lesson in a journal format.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson aligns to the Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS) Task Submarines (CPALMS Resource ID# ). In this lesson, students with similar instructional needs are grouped according to MFAS rubric levels: Getting Started, Moving Forward, Almost There, and Got It. Students in each group complete an exercise designed to move them toward a better understanding of the ordering of rational numbers.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will write and graph inequalities that represent real-world constraints involving whole numbers, negative numbers, and/or rational numbers. The distinction between continuous and discrete variables is made.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students are introduced to simple inequalities and their graphs as they write inequalities to represent real-world constraints.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will learn the functions and characteristics of the four main layers of Earth's atmosphere. They will also determine the thickness of each layer and display them to scale. Students will plot the layers' temperatures, noting the change in temperature from the bottom to the top on a number line.

Type: Lesson Plan

Rangoli is a traditional Indian art that is used in decorating the entrance of the house to welcome guests. In this activity students will use the concept of lines of symmetry to select the best rangoli design for a school event.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding that opposite quantities combine to make zero-sum pairs and will learn how to subtract rational numbers using a horizontal number line and the additive inverse

Type: Lesson Plan

Multiply efficiently and fluently with multi-digit decimals using a standard algorithm for the operation.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will evaluate batteries using empirical data and customer comments to help a Taxi Cab Service decide which battery brand to purchase. In this real-world scenario, students will communicate with the client in letter format stating their suggested ranking. They will also provide calculations and justification for each decision.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson requires students to use mathematical data and logic/reasoning to place vendors into retail spaces in a shopping plaza. Students will first rank five vendor types on their profitability (based on average sales and average overhead/upkeep costs), then place the vendor types into the 11-13 retail spaces. They are also required to find the area of each space and calculate the total leasing charges. The plans for the plaza are given on a coordinate plane, so students will need to find the lengths of horizontal and vertical line segments (using the coordinates of the endpoints) to calculate the areas of the rectangular and composite spaces.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

This project is used to help students enhance their ability to use and understand the coordinate plane by creating a map of their school.

Type: Lesson Plan

The lesson uses the classroom as a coordinate plane then moves into plotting points on a graph. It culminates with a target-practice game.

Type: Lesson Plan

This resource provides a Model-Eliciting Activity where students will analyze a real-world scenario to solve a client's problem and provide the best possible solution based on a logically justified process. The students will consider a request from Always On Time Delivery Service to evaluate several GPS units and help them decide which unit they should purchase.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use T-charts as a strategy to add and subtract positive and negative numbers.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is an introduction to integers. Students will compare, order, and describe real-life situations using positive and negative whole numbers. The concepts of opposites and vertical as well as horizontal number lines are addressed.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will organize the set of real numbers and be able to identify when a number is rational or irrational. They will also learn the process of how to change a repeating decimal to its equivalent fraction.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students learn about the four quadrants of a coordinate plane and how to plot points in those quadrants. Students also learn how to use linear equations to predict future input and output pairs. Students work together to try to sink the teacher's fleet in a Battleship-type game while the teacher tries to sink theirs first.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students are challenged to plot coordinates on a graph in order to create a rectangle, and then find the length of its horizontal and vertical sides using the coordinates to calculate the area and perimeter. 

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of the rules for adding integers by using the absolute value of integers and number lines.

Type: Lesson Plan

This introductory lesson guides students through the process of graphing polygons on the coordinate plane and finding vertical and horizontal side lengths. Explicit instructions are given for teachers who are new to GeoGebra. A detailed summative assessment includes extensions and an answer key is provided.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson introduces students to the concept of negative and positive integers as opposites and as indicators of movement, beginning with elevation and ending with real-world application to money.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson involves students using positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of zero in each situation. Students will understand the positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite values.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will graph ordered pairs within all four quadrants of a coordinate plane in order to complete the picture of a bulldog.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson contains a small group activity in which students use knowledge of graphing in a 4-quadrant coordinate grid. Students will individually solve a real-world problem to find the distance between two points on a coordinate grid. Students must utilize their knowledge of absolute value and subtracting integers to determine distances between points.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed to help students decode word phrases and then translate them from word form into numerical form. It provides a resource, in the form of a foldable, that can be kept all year and used anytime the students need to decode word phrases.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will review how to graph positive numbers and then negative numbers on a number line. The students will review absolute value and apply this to different integers. They will then play a fun game to check their understanding.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will use physical and digital manipulatives to help them discover patterns when adding positive and negative integers.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of plotting points on quadrant I of the coordinate plane to figure out other coordinate pairs within quadrants II, III, and IV. Students are challenged to match description cards to the matching "map" (four-coordinate grid). 

Type: Lesson Plan

Follow Matteo as he explores opposite numbers, positive and negative rational numbers, and zero in real-world contexts while planning and going on a cruise in Alaska in this interactive tutorial. 

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn how to create and use number lines with positive and negative numbers, graph positive and negative numbers, find their distance from zero, find a number’s opposite using a number line and signs, and recognize that zero is its own opposite with this interactive, golf-themed tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

What's the shortest path between point A and B on the ocean? It depends on wind and currents, but coordinates can help you track your position.

Related Resources:
KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: GPS Data Set[.XLSX]
KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: Path Visualization for Google Earth[.KML]

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Type: Perspectives Video: Professional/Enthusiast

Unlock an effective teaching strategy for using patterns to help students make generalizations when adding integers in this Teacher Perspectives video for educators.

Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

Unlock an effective teaching strategy for making connections with absolute values to graphing in this Teacher Perspectives video for educators.

Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

The purpose of this task is to help students interpret signed numbers in a context as a magnitude and a direction and to make sense of the absolute value of a signed number as its magnitude. The questions about the elevation of New Orleans are fairly natural: it is a standard convention to use positive numbers to represent elevations above sea level and negative numbers below sea level. However, it is possible to represent them the other way around.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

Students are asked to reason about and explain the position of two locations relative to sea level.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of this task is meant to reinforce students' understanding of rational numbers as points on the number line and to provide them with a visual way of understanding that the sum of a number and its additive inverse (usually called its "opposite") is zero.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of the task is for students to compare signed numbers in a real-world context.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of this task is to help students get a better understanding of fractions on a number line.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of this task is for students to get a better understanding of the relative positions and values of positive and negative numbers.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of this task is for students to apply their knowledge of integers in a real-world context.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This purpose of this task is to help students understand the absolute value of a number as its distance from 0 on the number line. The context is not realistic, nor is meant to be; it is a thought experiment to help students focus on the relative position of numbers on the number line.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

In this tutorial, you will compare rational numbers using a number line.

Type: Tutorial

This video discusses the negative sign as meaning "opposite."

Type: Tutorial

Locate fractions and decimals on the same number line in this tutorial.

Type: Tutorial

Let's order negative numbers from least to greatest in this video.

Type: Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to order rational numbers using a number line.

Type: Tutorial

In this tutorial you will compare the absolute value of numbers using the concepts of greater than (>), less than (<), and equal to (=).

Type: Tutorial

This video guides you through comparisons of values, including opposites.

Type: Tutorial

This video demonstrates sorting values including absolute value from least to greatest using a number line.

Type: Tutorial

This video demonstrates evaluating inequality statements, some involving absolute value, using a number line.

Type: Tutorial

This video demonstrates solving absolute value inequality statements.

Type: Tutorial

This video is about interpreting absolute value in a real-life situation.

Type: Tutorial

This video uses a number line to describe the opposite of a number.

Type: Tutorial

This video provides sample questions about the concept of opposite numbers.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation