The positive number of units a number is from zero on a number line
What number should be subtracted from -7 to get a difference of -12?
Write an equation to represent beginning at -7 on the number line and ending at -3.
The answer to a subtraction problem
When adding two negatives the sum will be: a. always positive, b. always negative, or c. sometimes positive and sometimes negative
Numbers greater than zero
Write an equation to represent beginning at -6 on the number line and ending at -9.
10 - (-2)
When solving the problem -6 - 5 by walking the number line, would you be walking forward or backward?
-9 + -8
When solving the problem -9 - 4 by walking the number line, would you be facing the negative integers or the positive integers?
Write an equation to represent beginning at 5 on the number line and ending at 2.
When you subtract a negative number from a positive number the difference will be: a.) always positive, b.) always negative, c.) sometimes positive and sometimes negative?
5 + -2
Write an equation to represent starting at 5.25 on the number line and ending at 7.75.
Prove with your counters what -7 + 9 equals
The set of numbers that includes positive and negative numbers, and zero
Write an equation that represents beginning at 3 on the number line and ending at -1.
When solving the problem -7 - (-3) by walking the number line, would you be facing the negative integers or the positive integers?
When solving the problem -5 + 15 by walking the number line, would you be walking forward or backward?
-8 + 5
The answer to an addition problem
-4 - (-3)
Explain why subtracting a negative number is the same as adding a positive by relating it to the number line.
-3 - 6
