Digging Deeper

Students describe and use strategies for identifying and plotting negative rational numbers on the number line. This lesson also introduces what it means for two numbers to be opposites when they are the same distance from zero on a number line (MP7). 

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Identify and plot positive and negative numbers on the number line. • Use the symbol (`-`) and the word opposite to describe numbers that are the same distance from `0` but on opposite sides of the number line. • Recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., `-(-3)=3`.