Positive vs Negative
What is a positive number?
Number greater than/above 0.
What are opposites?
Numbers the same distance from zero but on different sides.
What is a number's absolute value?
A number's distance from zero.
What is an inequality?
A statement where two quantities are not equal.
What is a rational number?
Any number that can be written as a fraction (a/b).
What is a negative number?
A number less than/below 0.
What is the opposite of 12?
What is the absolute value of -8?
8
Compare these two numbers with a greater than or less than symbol: -4 and -8
-4>-8
Is a whole number a rational number?
yes
How do you say this temperature relative to zero: -4 degrees
(hint: use the terms above or below)
4 degrees below zero
What is the opposite of -6?
6
What is the absolute value of 7?
7
Compare these two numbers with a greater than or less than symbol: 10 and 14
10<14
Classify this number: 3.2
rational number
How do you say this temperature relative to zero: 8 degrees
(hint: use the terms above or below)
8 degrees above zero
What is the opposite of 0?
0
What is the absolute value of 3/4?
3/4
Order these numbers from least to greatest: 0, 2, 12, -8, -12
-12, -8, 0, 2, 12
Classify this number: -5
integer, rational number