Integers

Finally we can count backwards past zero on the number line! This unit is about positive and negative numbers. How to identify them, calculate them, add them, subtract them, multiply and divide them. Just remember to watch the signs!

Lesson Content

• Scott Foresman Year 6 Textbook

• Scott Foresman Year 6 Practice Masters Workbook

• NOMP

• All work is done individually, but you can of course help each other.

 

Goals

• Understand that there are numbers less than zero (negative numbers)

• Understand how to use a number line to compare and add integers

• Understand that positive and negative numbers can also be fractions and decimals

• Understand that subtracting an integer is the same as adding its opposite

• Understand that when you multiply and divide integers, the product can be positive, negative or zero.

• Understand how to solve equations with integers.

 

Key Terms

• Opposites

• Integers

• Absolute Value

• Rational numbers

 

Helpful Links

• nomp.se

 

How Will I Be Graded?

• Quality of in class work

• Quiz at the end of the unit.

 

Läroplanskopplingar

Syfte

• formulera och lösa problem med hjälp av matematik samt värdera valda strategier och metoder,
• välja och använda lämpliga matematiska metoder för att göra beräkningar och lösa rutinuppgifter,

Centralt innehåll

• Rationella tal och deras egenskaper.
• Positionssystemet för tal i decimalform.
• Tal i bråk- och decimalform och deras användning i vardagliga situationer.
• Metoder för enkel ekvationslösning.

Uppgifter

Integers Quiz

An inclass quiz about the unit.