{"id":101,"date":"2011-12-30T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","slug":"what-is-a-number-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/what-is-a-number-line\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Number Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0Number line is a widely used concept in mathematics. It is used to represent, compare, add and subtract real numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0A number line is usually a horizontal straight line on which every point corresponds to a real number.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>These points are evenly-spaced on the line extending in both the directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Number-line.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Number-line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The number line divided into two symmetric halves by the number zero, called the origin of the number line.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The values on the right side of zero are positive and increasing.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The values on the left side of zero are negative and decreasing.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The number on the left is smaller than the number on the right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Examples:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">\u00a0<span><span>&#8211;<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>2 is smaller than 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\"><span><span>&#8211;<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>-3 is smaller -2<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\"><span><span>&#8211;<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>-1 is smaller than 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\"><span><span>&#8211;<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>-4 is smaller than 0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Number line is a widely used concept in mathematics. It is used to represent, compare, add and subtract real numbers. \u00a0A number line is usually a horizontal straight line on which every point corresponds to a real number.\u00a0 These points are evenly-spaced on the line extending in both the directions. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The number line divided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,331,1086,1221],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algebra","tag-algebra-2","tag-compareintegers","tag-math","tag-numberline"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}