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Music Festival: Opposite Sides of Zero

Practice opposite numbers, reflections across zero, and opposites of opposites using music festival ticket goals and stage schedules.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.NS.C.6.a

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify opposite numbers as points equally far from zero on opposite sides of a number line.
  • Students interpret opposite signed values in ticket sales and stage schedules.
  • Students determine that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the original number.

How to use

Have students use the number lines to check each reflection across zero. Finish by discussing why two reflections return a number to its original position.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.NS.C.6.a

See a negative number as the mirror of a positive one across 0 on the number line, and know the opposite of an opposite is the number.

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Music Festival: Opposite Sides of Zero

Use number lines to interpret opposite numbers and repeated reflections.

Reflect Across Zero

A reflection across zero sends a number to its opposite. Use the number lines to answer.

1.
The festival's ticket tracker uses 0 for the sales goal. A booth is at 7, meaning 7 tickets above its goal. Reflect 7 across 0.−10−9−8−7−6−5−4−3−2−1012345678910

What number is the reflected position?  

2.
A stage schedule marks early starts with negative numbers and late starts with positive numbers. Which position is the mirror of −4 across 0?−6−5−4−3−2−10123456
  • A. The position is −5.
  • B. The position is 0.
  • C. The position is 4.
  • D. The position is −4.
3.
The time tracker also records half minutes. A soundcheck begins 1 1/2 minutes late, at 1 1/2 on this line.−2−1.5−1−0.500.511.52

What number is opposite 1 1/2?  

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