Summary: Identifying and Writing Integers
Key Concepts
- Opposite Notation
- means the opposite of the number
- The notation is read the opposite of .
- Absolute Value Notation
- The absolute value of a number is written as .
- for all numbers.
Glossary
- absolute value
- The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0 on the number line.
- integers
- Integers are counting numbers, their opposites, and zero ...
- negative number
- A negative number is less than zero.
- opposites
- The opposite of a number is the number that is the same distance from zero on the number line, but on the opposite side of zero.