In looking ahead to an upcoming important unit "Rational Explorations" I found a place where the concepts are written in a more user friendly way than the ​actual standards we use..  Feel free to copy and paste them into a search engine to find helpful videos or extra practice as needed.  Videos are often the best way to preview a topic.  As we work through the unit I will update information. The above dates are when we are expecting to start the information.

• Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values.

• Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Rational number include whole numbers, fractions and decimals. This grade must be able to place negative and positive numbers in the correct order.

• Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line.

• recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself.

• Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane.

• Recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes.

• Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.

• Find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.

• Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.

• Write, interpret, and explain statements of order for rational numbers in real-world contexts.

• Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on the number line

• Interpret absolute value as magnitude for a positive or negative quantity in a real-world situation.  

• Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.