---
title: Guess My Number
description: In this lesson, students will provide clues to the location of a mystery rational number on the number line.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/guess_my_number-001.png
---

**Subject: Math**

**Lesson Length: 15 - 20 mins**

**Topic: The Number System**

**Grade Level: 6**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.7.A](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  In this lesson, students will provide clues to the location of a mystery rational number on the number line.

**Know Before You Start:** This lesson would serve as a great quiz assessment for the understanding of **rational numbers** on a number line.

**Hook:**

- Have students find the mystery number in the sample comic.
- Have students share their own mystery numbers with the class by giving clues.

**Activity:**

- 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 ___

**Closure:**

- Have students share their comics with a partner and try to guess their partner’s mystery number.

**Differentiation:**

- 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.

**Resources:**

- [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qky1p9d) to print or display

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