Blank number lines

Lets look at how useful is blank number lines in mathematics. We have worked on various numbers right?

How useful is blank number line? Look below for the answers.

1. Blank number lines are used in various ways, like they are used to teach children arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction.
2. It is used to teach them " in between numbers". It helps children to learn the distance between two end points.
3. Blank number lines are used to mar negative and positive distance and to count on them.
4. Here zero is the origin and it contains both positive integers and negative integers.
5. In blank number line we have zero as the origin, positive numbers are towards the right side of zero and negative integers are to the left side.

We will work on rational numbers examples in our next post until then keep smiling:-)

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