Timeline for Explaining the order of negative integers
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| May 26, 2016 at 11:01 | comment | added | Martin Argerami | -1. As I see it, since the issue is the kid's definition of "smaller"; imposing the "right" definition is not as good an approach as it would be to discuss what "smaller" means. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 5:39 | comment | added | Heisenberg | I tried all the methods mentioned by you but nothing worked. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 5:17 | comment | added | Tommi | Negative numbers as debt were understandable to kids in seventh grade, but I'm not sure when it becomes understandable. One kid has 3 €, another has 1 € of debt, third one has 9 € of debt. Who has the least money? | |
| May 26, 2016 at 4:48 | history | answered | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |