Curriculum placement
Grade 6. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Ordering numbers and absolute value
Order signed values and interpret absolute value
Problem types
- Order and absolute value in context
- Distance on a number line
- Order signed decimals and fractions
- Put numbers in two inequalities
Builds on
- Positive and negative numbers
- Fractions on a number line · Earlier idea
Distance between two points on a number line is found by counting units, and the same idea measures distance from zero in both directions.
Leads to
Related skills
- Coordinates in four quadrants · Shared foundations
- Adding and subtracting signed numbers · Shared foundations
- Inequalities on a number line · Shared foundations
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