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Use a model


(+6) + (-9)

What is -3?

100

(-8) -  (+5)

What is -13?

100

Can adding two integers ever result in zero? Give examples and explain why.

What is YES?
100
Write as an integer?  Two metres below sea level
What is -200?
100

Which integer is 6 greater than -5?

What is +1

200

Use a model to Add.


(-6) + ( -4)

What is -10?

200

(-10)  -  (-6)

What is -4?

200

Why is −3 greater than −8, even though 8 is larger than 3?

What is the farther you go on the number line left (Away from zero), the smaller the integer?
200

Which integer is neither positive or negative?

What is Zero?

300

Box + (-3) = +4

What is +7?

300

(+4) + (-8) + (+6)

What is +2?

300

On April 27th, 2004, the highest temperature in Windsor was +5 C and the highest temperature in Yellowknife was -2 C.  What is the difference in temperature.

What is (+5) - (-2)= +7   The temperature in Windsor is 7 degrees c greater than the temperature in Yellowknife or (-2) - (+5) = -7  The temperature in Yellowknife is 7 less than the temperature in Windsor.



300

What is the most important question you need to ask yourself when subtracting integers?

What is "Do I have that amount to subtract"?

400
(-58) + (+40) + (+8)

What is -10?

400

(+23) +  (+87) + (-23) + (+5)

What is +92

400

Copy the triangle at the left.  Place the numbers  -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1 in the triangle so the sums of the sides are the same.

What is see the board?

400

What is a Zero Pair?

See board

500

(+90) + (-200) + (+110) + (-6)

What is -6?

500

When you add two positive integers, their sum is always a positive integer.  When you subtract two positive integers, is their difference always a positive integer? Explain.

NO

(+5) - (+2) = +3

(+2) - (+5) = -3

500

Represent +5 in three different ways

See board

500

An elevator started in the basement, rose 11 floors, descended 7 floors, descended 3 floors, rose 8 floors, rose 3 floors, and descended 7 floors.  At what floor did the elevator stop?  Assume the basement to be floor 0.

What is +5?

500

Find 3 pairs of integers with a sum of -6

(-3) + (-3)

(-7) + (+1)


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