INTEGERS

UNIT ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS

• What are integers?

• When do we work with integers in the
real world?
• What situations can be represented
with integers?
• How do we add and subtract integers?
 KEY VOCABULARY
•Integers
•Positive Integers
•Negative Integers
•Opposites
•Absolute value
•Additive Inverse
Property
 INTEGERS
• Whole numbers and their opposites are
integers such as 6 and -6.
• Zero is not positive or negative but is an
integer.

-6 0 6
Opposites

What do you notice about the

opposite pairs?
Positive number – a
number greater than
zero.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Negative number- a
number less than zero.

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
NEGATIVE
NUMBERS
CAN BE
USED TO
MEASURE
TEMPERATU
RES BELOW
ZERO.
NEGATIVE
NUMBERS
ARE USED
TO
MEASURE
PLACES
BELOW
SEA
LEVEL.
NEGATIV
E
NUMBERS
ARE
USED TO
SHOW
DEBT
(WHAT
YOU
OWE.)
Examples of words that can be used to represent
positive and negative situations.

Can you think of other words used in real life

to represent a positive or negative situation?
 Comparing itegers
THE INTEGER
TO THE RIGHT
ON THE
-2 > -17
Greater
NUMBER LINE than

IS ALWAYS
LARGER. 0 < 22
Less
than

-247 > -400

Greater
than
 OPPOSITE
NUMBERS
numbers that are the same distance
from zero in the opposite direction

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

What is the opposite of 0?

What do you notice
about the location of
the opposite pair of
integers?

-6 0 6
Opposites