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So the blue point is -10 but then it says it’s far from 10 confused

So the blue point is -10 but then it says it’s far from 10 confused-example-1

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It is -10 because skip counting by 5.

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This number line is counting by 5's. Each dash is valued 5 numbers.

The blue point would be -10. Even though on this number line -10 visually looks "close" to 10, it isn't. They are 20 numbers apart.

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So the blue point is -10 but then it says it’s far from 10 confused-example-1
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