Grade 5 Math: Integers
24 printable 5th Grade math worksheets on Integers. The first three are free to download; All Access opens all 24.
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Teaching Integers
What it is
Integers are the whole numbers together with their negatives, the numbers behind temperatures below zero and money owed. These pages place them on a number line, compare them, and find absolute values, which is a number's distance from zero, so the absolute value of -8 is 8.
When a child is ready
Ready once the number line is familiar and the child compares and orders whole numbers without hesitating.
If they struggle
The sticking point is that -8 is less than -3, which feels backward. Draw the number line upright like a thermometer with zero in the middle, so further down is colder and smaller. For absolute value, read the bars as how far from zero, and work the inside first, so the absolute value of 2 + 7 is the absolute value of 9, which is 9.
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