Adding & Subtraction Integers
Description – Learn the concept and rules for adding positive and negative integers. Examples and an application with an area model. Properties of addition presented. Learn the concept and rules for subtracting integers. Student’s use an interactive number line activity to develop an understanding of subtracting negative integers. Subtraction rules and simplifying techniques are presented.
Activities – Multimedia Tutorial
Objectives
- Distance between numbers on the number line
- Distance from zero on the number line
- Adding a negative numbers
- Using absolute value in real number addition of negative numbers
- Adding opposites
- Adding zero
- Associative property of addition
- Using models to add integers
- Using the number line to add integers
- Subtracting negatives – the rule
- Opposites of a difference
- Opposite of a sum
- Using models to subtract integers
- Using the number line to subtract integers
Tags
Integers, negative numbers, number line, comparing numbers, absolute value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
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