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6th grade · Math · Unit 9 of 17

Integers & Decimals

Negatives, thousandths and rounding

What your child practices

Meeting negative numbers on a number line, comparing and ordering integers, decimals and fractions, working with thousandths, and rounding decimals.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 6.9; 6.10; 6.12; 6.13 · signed numbers on the number line, absolute value, and comparing and ordering rational numbers

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Integers are whole numbers and their opposites: …, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, ….
  2. On a number line, numbers to the right are greater.
  3. To compare decimals, line up the places and compare from the left.

Example: Which is greater, −3 or −7? On a number line, −3 is to the right of −7. Numbers further right are greater. Answer: −3

Integers & Decimals in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 9 of 17 in 6th grade Math, after Volume & Capacity and before Algebra Moves.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which integer belongs at the ? on the number line?

    -10-8-6-4-20246810?
    • 8
    • 5
    • −7

  2. Question 2

    The temperature is 17 degrees below zero. Which integer shows this?

    • 18
    • −17
    • 17

  3. Question 3

    Tap the decimals from least to greatest.

    • 0.628
    • 0.777
    • 0.767
    • 0.692

  4. Question 4

    Tap the integers from least to greatest.

    • 4
    • 1
    • −7
    • 9

  5. Question 5

    In 9.482, which place is the digit 2 in?

    • thousandths
    • tenths
    • hundredths

  6. Question 6

    Which decimal is equal to 1/2?

    1/2

    • 0.75
    • 0.5
    • 0.125

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