1. 1-6: Comparing and ordering integers
Grade 6 Math

2. Warm up
Janelle puts one piece of paper on top of another and cuts them both in half. She now has 4 pieces of paper. She stacks the pieces and cuts the stack in half to get 8 pieces of paper. Repeating this process, how many cuts will Janelle need to make in all to get 128 pieces of paper?
Ans: 6 cuts

3. New Vocabulary Integers are a set of whole numbers and their opposites
Opposites are two numbers that are the same distance from zero on the number line but in opposite direction
Absolute value of an integer is its distance from zero on a number line

4. Integers
Integers
Natural
Numbers
Whole Numbers

5. Comparing and ordering
Remember: The number farther to the right is greater
You can use the number line to order integers
= is the equality symbol
<, >, ≤ and ≥ are inequality symbols

6. Complete the worksheet