About Number Line: Integers
What do elevation, account balances, and temperature have in common? They can all be represented on a number line. Compare integers on a number line and in an inequality statement. Discover the meaning of absolute value.
How to play Number Line: Integers
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. What do elevation, account balances, and temperature have in common?
Questions & answers
- What is Number Line: Integers?
- Number Line: Integers is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. What do elevation, account balances, and temperature have in common? They can all be represented on a number line.
- What can kids learn from Number Line: Integers?
- It helps kids explore: use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in multiple contexts. explain the meaning of positive values, negative values, and zero, in multiple contexts. describe the location of a point on a number line with respect to another number. describe the location of a point on a number line with respect to its opposite define the absolute value of a number as its distance from zero. interpret inequality statements as statements about the relative position of two integers on a number line diagram.
- What age is Number Line: Integers good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to middle school (roughly ages 10–14), and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Number Line: Integers free to play?
- Yes — Number Line: Integers is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.