Zero Pairs

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  • October 10, 2014 at 10:31 am #3238
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    Hi Bill,

    I understand that we will be teaching 6th grade students x-2=5. My questions is: how do we go about teaching it if students are not familiar with the concept of zero pairs? (-2+2)

    October 10, 2014 at 7:57 pm #3241
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    I think 6.NS.5 is the standard you are looking for:

    Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

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