1. According to the teacher, students can track their progress and understand that if they make a mistake, they can get the point back later.

2. By tracking negative and positive behavior to a numbered system, students can calculate how their actions can have positive or negative ramifications and thus be more motivated to exibit positive behaviors.

3. Some examples of behaviors that can be postitively tracked are: 

being prepared and ready at the beginning of class

cleaning up when asked

finishing a task in the alotted time

The opposite behaviors of these could be used to negatively track numbers.

1. It's important that students can earn points to show or lose points throughout the day to keep good behavior and can help students motivate to keep pushing to engage in the learning process. 

2. This strategy integrates math with behavior management by using the number line. It can help the students to subtract, add, divide, and multiply numbers is a great tool for 5th graders to be more confident in math. 

3. Some behaviors that I might measure with a number line are a great strategy to develop more confidence to work in group work and independent work and they are going to apply their knowledge in different activities. With everything that they have learned about number lines, they can help each other, ask the teacher for help.  

I am going to try this number line tracking in my classroom this week. 

1) Each student will have different up/down zones throughout each day. So, if they make a mistake and lose a point, they always have opportunity to behave better and recover, or earn additional, points. Peer pressure created can be helpful as students monitor each others behavior and work together as a class for a common goal.

2) Students learn about units of measure and how they increase/decrease on a number line with addition/subtraction. They can also see a visual goal to work towards on the line. 

3) Positive behaviors become important for students to obtain throughout the day and they learn to work as a team to achieve their goal. Some examples of behaviors to earn points are assisting another student, volunteering for a class job, cleaning area without prompting. On the other hand, points are lost by negative actions like interrupting someone speaking, shout-outs, not keeping hands to themselves, running in the school, talking in the hallway, or just refusal to cooperate. These lists are practically endless.

Group administration of the number line to track class points doesn’t make an individual feel defeated. It’s a whole group visual instructional strategy that shows the class that teamwork is important and valued. Earning points

Using the number line to support adding and subtracting is common practice in primary aged students.

You could measure time on task, assignment completion, promote positive conversation from peer to peer during discussions.

With the use of a number line in math as well as to regulate classroom management gives our students another resource when problem solving. How do we move forward? What will make me go backward? Valuable conversation could happen with the use of a number line in this fashion