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Directed Numbers Highlights
Directed Numbers Highlights
Numbers Mathematical Highlights
In this unit, you will extend your knowledge about negative numbers and explore their properties.
You will explore ways to represent positive and negative numbers, and use them in different situations.
Before Knowledge, Understanding and Skills After
I can compare and order positive and negative numbers and locate them on a
number line.
I can perform addition and subtraction calculations with directed numbers.
I can perform multiplication and division calculations with directed numbers.
I can use the order of operations in computations with directed numbers.
I can plot coordinates in all 4 quadrants.
I can use models for positive and negative numbers to solve problems.
Key Vocabulary
directed numbers integers zero pairs horizontal number line
vertical number line minus negative opposite
order of operations BEDMAS/BIDMAS/BIRDMAS inverse operations
calculate evaluate simplify axis (axes)
Number Plane Coordinate System Cartesian Plane Quadrants
origin coordinates ( x and y)
As you work on the problems in this unit, ask yourself questions like these:
· Do two wrongs make a right? What is a double negative?
· Do you always get a bigger number when you add or subtract two numbers?
· Do you always get a bigger number when you multiply or divide two or more numbers?
· Why is 4 bigger than 4?
· What tools can we use when we represent numbers?
· What words would you associate with positive numbers and what words with negative
numbers?
Now it is your turn to write down a few questions that you are interested in.
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