Understand and use rational numbers to: Describe quantities having opposite directions or values.• Represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation. • Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on the number line to:• Interpret absolute value as magnitude for a positive or negative quantity in a real-world context.• Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from statements about order.
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Understand rational numbers as points on the number line and as ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.
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On a number line:• Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 and that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself.• Find and position rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line.
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On a coordinate plane:• Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants.• Recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes.• Find and position pairs of rational numbers on a coordinate plane.