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Garden Club Market: Gains, Losses, and Zero

Interpret positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero as a school garden club tracks cash changes, produce goals, and market profits.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.NS.C.5

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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, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students represent opposite quantities with positive and negative numbers.
  • Students interpret signed numbers relative to a stated reference point.
  • Students explain what zero means for changes, goals, and profit.

How to use

Have students identify the reference point before answering each section. Discuss why zero has a different contextual meaning in each record.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.NS.C.5

Use positive and negative numbers for opposite quantities like above/below zero or gains/losses, and explain what 0 means there.

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Garden Club Market: Gains, Losses, and Zero

Use signed numbers to describe money changes and amounts above or below a goal.

Track Cash Changes

The school garden club sells its produce at a farmers market. In its cash log, positive numbers mean money enters the cash box, and negative numbers mean money leaves it. Use a minus sign for negative answers.

1.
Amira receives $18 from a customer buying tomatoes.

Write the signed cash change:   dollars.

2.
Luis takes $6.50 from the cash box to pay for paper bags.

Write the signed cash change:   dollars.

3.
The cash log shows −9 dollars for a customer refund. What does this entry mean?
  • A. The cash box contains exactly $9.
  • B. The customer paid $9 into the cash box.
  • C. The club paid $9 out of the cash box.
  • D. The club needs $9 to reach its goal.

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