Use these practice problems, in either Google Slides online form or printable PDF, to help your students practice using a number line to show and work with numbers. There are six practice word problems in which real-world values such as money, horizontal and vertical position, temperature, and building floor can change. For each problem, the student will plot values on a horizontal or vertical number line and record the results of operations. Let’s look at how this would work in the case of a European apartment building, the V Tower in Prague.

While American buildings typically number their floors starting with 1, the V Tower numbers its floors starting with 0. The ground floor is floor 0 and the underground parking floors are -1, -2, and -3. Above the ground floor, there are 30 floors of apartments numbered 1-30. A resident parks his car at -2 and takes the elevator eight floors up. What floor is he on now? He then takes the elevator five floors down to the coffee shop. What floor is he on now? This can be plotted on a number line.

This is a good companion to Grade 6 Rational Numbers Guided Notes 2, Rational Numbers Check In 4, Check In 5, and Check In 6, and Grade 6 Rational Numbers Worksheet 2. You can get all six resources together for about 30% off in Grade 6 Rational Numbers Lesson 2.