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MAP Recommended Practice

Unit 35: Lesson 11

Comparing negative numbers
Math
MAP Recommended Practice
Numbers and Operations 218-221
Comparing negative numbers
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Compare rational numbers using a number line

CCSS.Math: 6.NS.C.7, 6.NS.C.7a
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Problem

Use the number line to compare the numbers.
A vertical number line is labeled with integers from negative 6 to 2 from bottom to top. There are two points on the number line. The point 1-sixth is located above 0, between 0 and 1. The point negative 3 and 3-quarters is located below 0, between negative 3 and negative 4.
Complete the statements below.
On the number line, start color #7854ab, start fraction, 1, divided by, 6, end fraction, end color #7854ab is
start color #ca337c, minus, 3, start fraction, 3, divided by, 4, end fraction, end color #ca337c.
This means start color #7854ab, start fraction, 1, divided by, 6, end fraction, end color #7854ab is
start color #ca337c, minus, 3, start fraction, 3, divided by, 4, end fraction, end color #ca337c.
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