Investigation 1: Extending the

Number Line
Accentuate the Negative, Chapter 2

Math Fever

Look at your
Handout

Rules for Math Fever:

Teams choose a category.

If they get the question correct, they get the points .

If they miss the questions, they lose the points.

Work in pairs

Each pair will turn in one paper with answers to

Problem 1.1, on your handout.

Red & Black Chips

What does it mean when they say a business in the

black? What about in the red?

Black Chip = +1 dollar (income)

Red Chip = -1 dollar (expense)

Tate owes his sister $6 for helping him cut the lawn.
He earns $4 delivering papers. Is Tate in the red
or in the black?

Work in pairs

Each pair will turn in one paper with answers to Problem

1.4, A-F on your handout.

Extending the Number Line

On the number line on the board, we see positive and

negative whole numbers called integers.
Each negative number can be paired with a positive
number. These two numbers are called opposites because
they are the same distance from zero on the number line.

Are there more numbers on the number line?

Rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as

one integer a divided by another integer b, where b is not
zero.

Complete Problem 1.2 with your neighbor.

From Sauna to Snowbank (Using a

Number Line)

Number lines

The National Weather Service keeps records of

temperature changes. The world record for
the fastest rise in outside air temperature
occurred in Spearfish, South Dakota, on
January 22, 1943. The temperature rose from
-4 degrees F to 45 degrees F in two minutes!

What was the temperature change?

How could you show this change, n, on a number
line?

Your turn!

Attempt Problem 1.3, A-E

Sketch number lines to show your work!