Integers Positives, Negatives, and Zero

x 0 y

How are negative numbers

used in the real world?

Give One – Get One

1. Give an idea to a partner.2. Get an idea from them.3. Switch partners.

x 0 y

x 0 y

What numbers could be located at x and y ?

x 0 y

What numbers could be located at x and y ?

Are there other possibilities?

x 0 y

What numbers could be located at x and y ?

Where is -x?

What are integers?

What are integers? Integers are the set of positive and negative whole numbers, including zero.

Integers can be graphed on a number line.

Integers can be graphed on a number line.

Imagine that sitting in your seat is zero.

If a number is positive, you need to stand up, because the number is positive or above zero.

If a number is negative, you need to squat next to your desk because the number is negative, or below zero.

In this game, you need to make a decision. Is the integer positive, negative, or zero?

6

-4

A bank account with no money

190 feet below sea level

An increase of 2 centimeters

Winning a jackpot

Missing a shot in basketball

Gaining 5 yards in football

Wrong answers on a worksheet

An increase in price

The temperature of freezing point

( in Celsius)

The opposite of

5

The opposite of

-5

The top of a mountain

The height of the average basketball

player

Finding $5 on the ground

Descending a mountain

A basement in a house

A stock loss

Winning the lottery

The opposite of zero

Depth of water level in a pool

A gain of $200

Water level in a well

Temperature during a winter night in Alaska

Draw a number line and graph these integers:

4, -3, 0, 1, -2

Draw a number line and graph 3 and its opposite.

Draw a number line and graph these integers:

-3, -2, -4, -9, -6.

Draw a number line and graph these rational numbers:

2, ½, -1, -1½, 0

Draw a vertical number line and graph these elevations:

1) 100 feet above sea level2) 200 feet below sea level3) sea level

100

0

200

-200

-100

100 above sea level

200 below sea level

sea level