We often need to organize values to either explain them to other people or simply make sense of them for ourselves. At this point students should have a very solid understanding of how to take positive integers and order them least to greatest or vice versa. Where a little confusion comes into play is when students begin working with fractions, decimals, and negative numbers or a mixture of all three. We encourage students to always start by making sure that all values are in the same notation system and then proceed from there. We need to remember that the more negative a value is, the further that it moves to left on a number line. These worksheets and lessons will help students learn how to give order to rational numbers.
Aligned Standard: Grade 6 Numbers - 6.NS.C.7b
- Advance Comparisons Step-by-step Lesson- Compare decimals and mixed numbers. Order them from least to greatest. In this we have to identify the sign. Negative numbers are smaller than non-negative numbers. The larger the value after the negative sign, the smaller the number.
- Guided Lesson - Compare decimals, mixed numbers, and fractions. Place a >, sign.
- Practice Worksheet - This is a little bit crunched together. This is the typically format of the practice tests we have seen going around. You will place the rational numbers in both least to greatest and vice versa.
- Matching Worksheet - I really didn't get too creative with this one. There are many more to follow. Match the word problems to their answers. Write the letter of the answer that matches the problem.
- Answer Keys - These are for all the unlocked materials above.
Homework Sheets
Decimals, fractions, negatives, just about all that and the kitchen sink too! These homework worksheets will help you make sense of this topic quickly.
- Homework 1 - Place the following numbers in order from least to greatest. The larger the value after the negative sign, the smaller the number. We can see that -.8 and -2 are our smallest numbers. -2 is the largest negative number and -.8 our smallest number
- Homework 2 - In this we have to identify the sign. Negative numbers are smaller than non-negative numbers. The larger the value after the negative sign, the smaller the number.
- Homework 3 - Place a >, Save Tons of Time! Make My Life Easier Now
