Understanding Integers: Graphing Integers on a Number Line

Students plot integers, identify labeled points and translate everyday situations into signed numbers. Number lines with different ranges and an answer key support the practice.
Grades
Grade 6
Pages
12
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Feb 23, 2023

Subject
Math
Topic
Graphing integers, Number line
Answer key
Included
Standards
6.NS.C.6

Product description

From the author

Practice locating positive and negative integers on a number line. Five worksheet pages include single values, sets of values, six real-world scenarios and reading labeled points.

The 12-page PDF contains five corresponding answer pages plus a cover and creator page. Select a task type and check the scale before plotting.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Graph a given positive or negative integer at its correct position on a number line.

  • Translate a real-world scenario, such as owed money or a temperature below zero, into a signed integer and plot it.

  • Identify the integer value represented by a labeled point on a number line.

Teaching tips

  • Start with the single-integer page before the grouped-integer and labeled-point pages because the number-line intervals widen across the sequence.

  • Use the answer key pages, which mirror each practice page's number line, to check work quickly.

  • Assign the real-world word-problem page after direct graphing practice, since it requires converting a scenario into a signed integer first.

Skills covered

  • Integer identification and placement — students plot single and grouped integers across progressively wider number lines.

  • Real-world signed-number reasoning — students translate scenarios such as owed money, a temperature below zero, and a stock-market loss into integers before graphing them.

  • Coordinate reading — students read a labeled point's position on a number line and state its integer value.

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Students plot single values and sets, translate six real-world scenarios into integers, and read labeled points.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • 6.NS.C.6

Core concepts

  • Integers

  • Number line

  • Positive and negative numbers

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