Negative numbers in context
Interpret negative numbers in context (temperature, sea level, bank balance); count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
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If the temperature drops to −5°C overnight and rises to 3°C by day, can your child place both on a number line and say how many degrees warmer the daytime temperature is?
Interpret negative numbers in context (temperature, sea level, bank balance); count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
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- Place –3, –1, 0, 2, 5 on a number line
- The temperature is –4°C and rises by 7 degrees — what is the new temperature?
- Count backwards from 3 in ones: 3, 2, 1, 0, –1, –2
“If the temperature drops to −5°C overnight and rises to 3°C by day, can your child place both on a number line and say how many degrees warmer the daytime temperature is?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Number Representation & Place Value
- Age range
- Ages 9–10