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6th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Course: 6th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY) > Unit 3
Lesson 1: Topic A: Understanding positive and negative numbers on the number line- Introduction to negative numbers
- Intro to negative numbers
- Negative numbers on the number line
- Interpreting negative numbers
- Negative decimals on the number line
- Negative decimals on the number line
- Decimals & fractions on the number line
- Negative fractions on the number line
- Missing numbers on the number line examples
- Missing numbers on the number line
- Number opposites
- Number opposites
- Number opposites
- Negative symbol as opposite
- Negative symbol as opposite
- Number opposites review
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Number opposites review
Review the opposites of numbers, and try some practice problems.
What is the opposite of a number?
The opposite of a number is the number on the other side of 0 on the number line, and the same distance from 0.
Example:
start color #e84d39, minus, 5, end color #e84d39 is the opposite of start color #1fab54, 5, end color #1fab54.
Ways to write the opposite of a number
We can write the opposite of a number using a negative sign.
Example:
The opposite of minus, 2, point, 2 can be written minus, left parenthesis, minus, 2, point, 2, right parenthesis.
Want to learn more about number opposites? Check out this video.
Practice
Want to try more problems like this? Check out these exercises:
Number opposites
Number opposites challenge
Number opposites challenge
Want to join the conversation?
- what is negative?(7 votes)
- A negative number is any number that is worth less than 0.
-4 is a negative number because it is worth less than 0. -4 would be found to the left of 0 on the number line.(78 votes)
- Can there be negative fractions(28 votes)
- yes no matter what kind of math there is always a negative(17 votes)
- so that also means that the opposite of 0 is 0(18 votes)
- Yes. 0 is neither positive nor negative; the number is "neutral". So, the opposite of the number 0 is simply 0.(15 votes)
- what is the opposite of 657854093221(9 votes)
- I agree it is for real kind of hard and easy at the same time(23 votes)
- It is so strange how "0" doesn't have an opposite like -0(14 votes)
- That's because if there was a 0 in the whole numbers world and a 0 in the decimal world, it would make sense, or at least for me it wouldn't.(9 votes)
- what is a positive and a negative(11 votes)
- A number is positive if it is greater than or equal to zero. A number is negative if it is less than or equal to zero.
Exsample of a negative number is : -3
Exsample of a positive number : 7
Does that help?(11 votes)
- All videos have been great so far. But the videos about absolute numbers have not helped me much to pass the tests. I feel like I am back at school again when teachers stand over my head and wonder why I don't get it. All the other videos have been so good. :( I simply cannot get the info I need from the related videos
Is it just me? Or does anyone else share my experience with these particular videos?(8 votes)- OK. I'll help. Opposites are VERY weird but easy when you get the hang of it. Examples of opposites:
-123456789 is the opposite of 123456789.
0 is the opposite of 0(3 votes)
- What is the negative of zero?(5 votes)
- I think it's 0...but I'm not entirely sure.(8 votes)
- Question 4 doesn't make sense to me. Can someone help me, please.(4 votes)
- It's saying that the opposite of 6 is negative 6, but then what is the opposite of negative 6?(2 votes)