Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #13990: Number line 3 - Number line 3
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-16 16:15:01+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, wrong-or-unclear, xp

Reporter: ruth.stevens@spps.org

Problem: what number is 2 to the left of the orange dot? The orange dot is on -6. Show solutions says that Numbers to the left of −6 are smaller, while numbers to the right of −6 are bigger. REALLY??? This is messing up my students who are already struggling. Can you fix? Thanks!

[number_line_3.html?seed=116&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/number_line_3.html?seed=116&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/number_line_3.html?seed=116&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-4%5C%22%22%2C13%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C11%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C30%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-3%5C%22%22%2C34%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%223%5C%22%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%222%5C%22%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-2%5C%22%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-3%5C%22%22%2C18%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-3%5C%22%22%2C29%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-9%5C%22%22%2C200%5D%5D)

["-4","-3","3","2","-2","-3","-3","-9"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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