6th Grade Math Ordering Rational Numbers & Integers, Exponents, Absolute Value

FIVE (Editable) activities introducing rational numbers & Integers, comparing & ordering rational numbers, absolute value, and coordinate plane. Activities are student driven and designed to allow your students to investigate a concept on their own. Allowing your students to figure out components of a concept before you actually teach the concept. You will see student engagement increase as students’ growth mindset of confidence is built.

Rational Number Activities cover the following:

#1 Real World with Positives and Negatives: This activity allows students to investigate what words in their world have positive and negative meanings. They will investigate directions/navigational, temperature, money, and elevation.

#2 Ordering Rational Numbers: This activity investigates using a number line to order rational numbers and then use these positive and negative numbers in real life situations.

#3 Absolute Value: Students use a number line to investigate the beginning of what the word absolute value means and how it relates to distance. Students then practice finding absolute value of creatures on a number line.

#4 Directions on Coordinate Plane: Students begin learning about a coordinate plane with the use of navigational directions (North, East, South, West). With the use of directions, students plot creatures where East/West is always the first direction (x-axis) and North/South is always the second direction (y-axis). Then students are to relate that on a coordinate plane, they always move right or left first for x-axis and then up or down for y-axis.

#5 Coordinate Plane of the World: This is by far my favorite activity as it brings geography of the continents into the lesson. By the end of this activity, your students will be able to name all the continents, locate them by quadrant, and visually understand where they are in relation to each other. This activity helps students to understand how coordinate planes are used for map making. Students will plot a polygon using ordered pairs in a shape similar of each continent. All polygons/continents are labeled and then students locate the quadrants of each continent. Students lastly determine the distance that all continents are from Africa, which is located on the origin for this activity.

Each Activity is designed for the length of a class period (about 45 minutes) and is designed to allow students to investigate a concept before you teach the concept.

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