Exploring Integers and Their Operations

This video tutorial introduces sixth graders to Unit 10, focusing on comparing and ordering integers and understanding absolute value. The lesson uses thermometers as a tool to explain positive and negative integers, and demonstrates how to compare integers using a number line. It also covers the concept of absolute value, providing examples and practice problems to reinforce learning. The lesson aligns with Minnesota standards for seventh-grade math.

What is the temperature on a hot and sunny day according to the teacher?

• Between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit

• Exactly 70 degrees Fahrenheit

• Above 80 degrees Fahrenheit

• Below 60 degrees Fahrenheit

If the temperature is 15 degrees below zero, how is it represented?

• 10 degrees

• -15 degrees

• 15 degrees

• 0 degrees

Where would you find negative numbers on a number line?

• Below zero

• To the left of zero

• Above zero

• To the right of zero

Which of the following is an example of opposite integers?

• -3 and 3

• 7 and 7

• 5 and -5

• 0 and 10

What is the absolute value of -9?

• 9 and -9

• 9

• -9

• 0

Which number is greater: -6 or -1?

• They are equal

• -1

• Cannot be determined

• -6

Which number is smaller: -8 or -2?

• -8

• -2

• They are equal

• Cannot be determined

What is the absolute value of 8?

• 0

• 16

• -8

• 8

What is the absolute value of 0?

• 1

• 10

• 0

• -1

What is the absolute value of -7?

• 14

• 0

• -7

• 7