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Grade 6 · Mathematics

Mathematics quiz for grade 6: Positive and negative numbers

This quiz helps revise “Positive and negative numbers” in Mathematics for grade 6. It has 25 questions in five categories: Below Zero, The Number Line, Opposites, Integer Operations, Signs and Stories. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 11–12
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Positive and negative numbers

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Below Zero

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What temperature does this thermometer show?

  2. 200

    Is a number for frost or a depth under water usually positive or negative?

  3. 300

    The shores of this…

    In the game
  4. 400

    It was −3 °C…

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  5. 500

    An account held 200…

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The Number Line

  1. 100

    What do we call the numbers greater than zero?

  2. 200

    On a horizontal number line, on which side of zero do the negative numbers sit?

  3. 300

    Which number does point…

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  4. 400

    Which is greater…

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  5. 500

    How far apart are…

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Opposites

  1. 100

    What is the opposite of 9?

  2. 200

    What do we call a number's distance from zero on the number line?

  3. 300

    What is the…

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  4. 400

    Which two numbers have…

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  5. 500

    Which number is…

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Integer Operations

  1. 100

    What is negative 4 plus 10?

  2. 200

    What is negative 5 minus 3?

  3. 300

    What is negative…

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  4. 400

    What is negative…

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  5. 500

    What is negative 1…

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Signs and Stories

  1. 100

    What is the name of the sign written in front of a negative number?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    On this Swedish scientist's scale, water freezes at zero degrees. What is his surname?

  3. 300

    In 1960 this bathyscaphe…

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  4. 400

    In which ancient country…

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  5. 500

    Absolute zero is the…

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