Grade 6 Integers Missing Number
Grade 6 integers missing number sheet: 24 problems on opposites, adding integers on a number line.
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Find the number that belongs in each blank.
- 1.-50 + ___ = 0
- 2.___ - (-4) = 11
- 3.56 + ___ = 0
- 4.-7 × ___ = -84
- 5.-13 + ___ = 0
- 6.3 + ___ = -1
- 7.17 + ___ = 0
- 8.11 + ___ = 21
- 9.72 + ___ = 0
- 10.___ - 10 = -20
- 11.-74 + ___ = 0
- 12.-8 × ___ = 80
- 13.-9 + ___ = 0
- 14.1 + ___ = 9
- 15.42 + ___ = 0
- 16.___ - 10 = 1
- 17.4 + ___ = 0
- 18.-2 × ___ = -20
- 19.32 + ___ = 0
- 20.5 + ___ = 1
- 21.15 + ___ = 0
- 22.-8 × ___ = -16
- 23.-52 + ___ = 0
- 24.___ - (-11) = 22
What this worksheet covers
Set A of this grade 6 missing number sheet holds 24 integers problems on one printable page, with the answer key on the page behind it. What makes this set particular: 21 of the 24 problems involve a negative quantity and the blank moves between positions from problem to problem, so no single procedure clears the page. Two problems from the middle of the page — "72 + ___ = 0" and "4 + ___ = 0" — show the range. Common Core 6.NS.6 is the slot this page fills.
Skills practised
Grade 6 integers means comparing and ordering integers, opposites, absolute value, and a first look at adding on a number line. Specifically, the problems practise opposites and adding integers on a number line. Concretely, the sheet tests whether a student can track direction as well as magnitude and reason backwards from a result to a missing part. Nineteen different answers appear across the 24 problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
About the missing number format
The 24 problems here move the unknown around, so a student solves for a missing part as often as for a result; problem 9, "72 + ___ = 0" is one of them. A missing addend or factor with a sign is the sharpest test of whether the rules are understood rather than pattern-matched.
Set A, Set B and Set C
The three sets come from the same generator with three different seeds: same skill, same layout, fresh numbers, and an answer key computed with the problems. Where Set A's problem 13 is "-9 + ___ = 0", Set B's is "3 + ___ = 0".
How to use this worksheet
Have the student estimate before computing, then compare. At grade 6 an integers answer that is wildly off should announce itself, and building that reflex matters as much as the 24 answers. Date the missing number before filing it. Set C from six weeks later is the cheapest evidence you have that the integers stuck.
One mistake to watch for
Ordering integers puts -8 above -3 because 8 is bigger than 3. Watch problem 17 of this missing number — "4 + ___ = 0" — for this one.
Magnitude is being compared instead of position.
Place both on a number line and read left to right; further left is always less.
Other grade 6 integers formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 6 Integers Drill, 30 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 6 Integers Timed Drill, 60 problems
- Mixed Review — Grade 6 Integers Mixed Review, 30 problems
- Word Problems — Grade 6 Integers Word Problems, 10 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 7 Integers Missing Number — grade 7, 24 problems
Missing Number sheets in other grade 6 topics
Free to download, print and photocopy for a whole class: three missing number sheets of grade 6 integers, 24 problems each, keys included.