Number Walk

Grade Level(s):  6^th Grade

Content Area:                                                                        Process Area:

Numbers and Operations                                           Problem-Solving

Algebra                                                           Reasoning and Proof

Geometry                                                                    Communication

Measurement                                                             Representation

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability                    Connections

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.5: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.6: Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.

Targeted Needs of Student:

Introducing negative numbers, kinesthetically walking a number line, visually seeing absolute value, understanding the difference between negative and positive numbers (such as -4 and 4)

Goal:

Kinesthetically understanding the number system and expanding knowledge of numbers to include negative numbers.

Materials Needed:

1.      Large paper with large numbers written on it from -15 to 15.

2.      Tape to keep papers down

Explanation/Summary:

In the hallway or outside (has to be a flat surface), the teacher will write one number on each large piece of paper. Then she will tape the numbers in order as a number line. Students will get to walk down the number line. The teacher will prompt each student with questions such as “What number do you have if you take 7 away from 5?” where the student will walk down from positive 7 to -2. Also, the teacher can have two students start on 0 and then tell one to walk 4 places to the right (add 4) and the other student 4 places to the left (take away 4). This shows absolute value is 4 because each student moved the same amount of spaces or numbers.

Resource:

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