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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.NS.C.5Unit 6: Rational numbers

Negative numbers in context

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🎯 Objective: Students use positive and negative numbers to describe temperatures, elevations and money.

Lesson outline

  1. Thermometer and sea-level examples.
  2. Number line.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: describe −20 ft.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

6.NS.C.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Understand positive and negative numbers in context
  • Order rational numbers and find absolute value
  • Graph in all four quadrants

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Rational numbers”

  1. Negative numbers in context
  2. Opposites and the number line
  3. Ordering and absolute value
  4. Four-quadrant coordinate plane

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