Grade 6 · The Number System

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.6

Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• What Are Integers? Positive and Negative Numbers

  What negative numbers mean, how opposites work, where integers sit on the number line, and why zero needs no sign of its own.