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LS 3 Lesson 3 - Falling In Line

The document explains how to use a number line to track financial transactions in a junk shop, illustrating movements for selling and buying items. It emphasizes the concept of positive and negative numbers, showing how to represent gains and losses visually. Additionally, it covers the representation of decimals and the concept of infinity on the number line, providing examples for clarity.

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LS 3 Lesson 3 - Falling In Line

The document explains how to use a number line to track financial transactions in a junk shop, illustrating movements for selling and buying items. It emphasizes the concept of positive and negative numbers, showing how to represent gains and losses visually. Additionally, it covers the representation of decimals and the concept of infinity on the number line, providing examples for clarity.

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LESSON 3

FA L L I N G
IN LINE
It is inventory time for Tito
Gino, and he asked for your help to
better understand the different
applications of numbers that can
make his job easier. Right now, he
needs to compute the money
gained daily by determining the
total weight of materials left in the
junk shop after all the transactions
in a day.
To get this information, do the
activity below to show him how
numbers work using movements.
Instructions:
1. Create a straight line on the
notebook/paper.
2. Mark the starting point as zero (0).
Mark equal spaces on the line, then
name each mark using numbers 1, 2,
3, and so on until you reach 15.
3. Using the list of transactions in
the junk shop for the past week,
compute the money gained daily
in terms of the weight of
materials left each day. Move
forward for “sell” amounts, move
backwards for “buy” amounts.
Let us now apply the instructions in
the activity based on the transactions for
the last five days given in the table below.
Applying the movements on the line
you made, this should be the results that
you got:
The items that the shop
sells, gain money, which is
why the movement is forward.
The items that the shop
buys, lose money, as payment
to the sellers who brought
them, which is why the
movement is backward.
In this exercise, you have just
used a number line to show the
natural movement of numbers.
The number line helps show the
result of combining numbers in
this kind of situations. The
remaining weight on for Day 1 is
shown below.
The number line is a
straight line that has numbers
at equal distances. The
number line uses zero as its
starting point. It is similar to a
ruler whose numbers have
equal distances from each
other.
MOVEMENT IN THE
NUMBER LINE
You may notice from the
activity that you did at the
beginning of the lesson that
the numbers on the line gets
bigger as you are moving to
the right (forward).
Meanwhile, numbers on the
line gets smaller when you are
moving to the left (backward).
We can show different
situations in real life as movement
in the number line. For example, in
the use of money, think of the
movement to the right as receiving
money where the amount you have
increases. On the other hand, the
movement to the left is your
spending where the amount of your
money decreases.
Example:
If you have ₱20.00 as baon
every day, compute how much will
be left after three days if you spend
on the following:
Ballpen = ₱10.00
Call & Text Load = ₱10.00
Bond Paper = ₱5.00
Snacks = ₱15.00
We can use any interval for our
number line as long as it is consistent
for all values. For this example, we
use a number line with intervals of 5.
You have ₱20.00 each day for the
three days, so your money increases,
and you move to the right. This
means you have ₱60.00 in total for
three days. Look at the movement
below.
Ballpen
MOVING TO THE LEFT OF ZERO
Can we move to the left of zero (0)? If
we use money as reference, remember
that moving to the left means we are
losing money.
When we do not have any money
(zero) but we need to pay bills and
expenses, we might borrow money from
your friends. Borrowing money or debt is
an example of going to the left of zero. We
will have a negative amount of money
which is represented in the number line
below.
Integers are made up of positive
numbers, negative numbers, and zero.
They constitute the usual number line
used in mathematics.

This number line extends to infinity


on both sides as symbolized by the arrow
heads at both ends.
DIFFERENT INTERVALS ON
THE NUMBER LINE
We can use any intervals
on the number line to simplify
representations particularly on
bigger values as long as the
intervals are of equal spaces.
Example 1.
Compare the number of fishes
sold by three fish vendors in the
market using the number line.
Since the biggest number is 70 and it
will take a lot of space to draw a number
line up to 70, we can use a number line
with intervals of 10.

The rightmost point in the number


line is the biggest while the leftmost is the
smallest.
Example 2.
Represent the amount of
centavo coins among three
friends by shading their positions
in the number line.
Eugene ₱ 0.30 or 30 centavos
Jeremiah ₱ 0.80 or 80 centavos
Jericho ₱ 0.50 or 50 centavos
We take note that decimals like
0.30, 0.50, and 0.80 are numbers
that occur in between whole
numbers.
We can imagine making smaller
divisions or “baby steps” in between
0 and 1 to represent decimals better
as shown below. In fact, both
decimals and fractions may be
represented this way.
INFINITY ON THE NUMBER
LINE
Suppose we want to show all
numbers x greater than 2 in the
number line. We need to show
that all locations on the number
line has the same characteristic
(all are more than 2). To do so, we
can connect the points
representing the numbers.
Example 1
Represent x > 2 in the
number line. Recall that in
demonstrating x > 2, we use 2
as the reference number that
we do not include in the set. In
the number line, we represent
this using an open circle
(unshaded).

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