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3. Use negative numbers on a number line (FP)

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teaches Common Core State Standards CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.C.5 http://corestandards.org/Math/Content/6/NS/C/5
teaches Common Core State Standards CCSS.Math.Practice.MP2 http://corestandards.org/Math/Practice/MP2
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Lesson objective: Fluenty use a number line to represent negative numbers.

This lesson helps to build fluency with using a number line to plot negative numbers. Number lines are used here because it supports student's understanding of a number's distance and direction from zero. This work develops students' understanding that the number line can show both distance and direction; the sets of positive and negative numbers exist in opposite directions from 0. 

Students engage in Mathematical Practice #2 (Students reason abstractly and quantitatively) as they build their understanding of integers on the number line.

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