Lesson Plan: Integers on a Number Line Mathematics • 6th Grade
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to model integers on number lines, discuss their distances from zero, and find opposite numbers.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify negative numbers on a number line,
- place negative numbers on a number line,
- identify a number and its opposite on a number line,
- understand the relationship between a number and its opposite on a number line,
- understand that zero is neither positive nor negative and it is always halfway between a number and its opposite.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- using number lines to model positive numbers.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- ordering or comparing integers,
- adding or subtracting integers.
