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6th grade · Math · Unit 1 of 19

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 6.2(B); 6.2(C); 6.2(D) · integers and rational numbers: opposites, absolute value, and ordering on a number line

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 1 of 19 in 6th grade Math, before Decimal × and ÷.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 decimal is equal to 7/8?

    7/8

    • 0.875
    • 0.6
    • 0.625

  2. Question 2

    The temperature is 12 degrees below zero. Which integer shows this?

    • −12
    • 13
    • 12

  3. Question 3

    In 2.613, which place is the digit 6 in?

    • thousandths
    • hundredths
    • tenths

  4. Question 4

    Round 6.643 to the nearest hundredth.

    • 6.65
    • 6.63
    • 6.64

  5. Question 5

    Tap the integers from least to greatest.

    • −9
    • 4
    • −6
    • −7

  6. Question 6

    Which integer belongs at the ? on the number line?

    -10-8-6-4-2024810?
    • 3
    • 4
    • 6

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