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At a Glance:
| Grades: | 6 |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Math |
| Topic: | The Number System |
| Lesson Length: | 15 - 20 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
In this lesson, students will provide clues to the location of a mystery rational number on the number line.
What should students know before this activity?
This lesson would serve as a great quiz assessment for the understanding of rational numbers on a number line.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Have students find the mystery number in the sample comic.
- Have students share their own mystery numbers with the class by giving clues.
What will students do?
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a three-panel "Mystery Number" comic.
- In the comic, they will present clues about the location of a mystery number on the number line:
- Panel 1: Clues about the number
- Panel 2: What is my mystery number
- Panel 3: My mystery number is ___
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Have students share their comics with a partner and try to guess their partner’s mystery number.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Provide a number line with negative numbers.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Provide sentence frames for clues.
Game Show
Middle School
