operation integers.

Bought 2 of these Operation Integer board games for my resource center class and tested them out today.

The game is really just a lot of integer problems disguised as a board game. 

The game directions are open for interpretation.
It could be played MANY different ways to include your choice of operations.
I would recommend the game for 6th - 8th grade.

Here were my modified rules:

1. Students took turns rolling.

2. Each space they landed on had two integers.  I told them the operation they were using was ADDITION ONLY. (pick the operation of your choice for the whole game OR have the students spin to use the operation).

3.Each student was required to solve the problem on the white erase board.  They earned 1 point per problem correct (the spinner-person can earn 2).

4. Each board game comes with an easy-to-navigate answer key for each possible problem for students or yourself to reference.

The students became much more comfortable with integers.  I saw growth in skills. And they had fun.

I give the "game" it an A-.

Accentuate the Negative

Negative Numbers can be one of the hardest units for students to grasp...

So here are some fun ideas I have found make the abstract concept seem a little more "real":

1. Number Balls - a game of ordering integers from least to greatest....

e learning - learn2. Cyberchase "Less than Zero" episode....I prefer to pick out only the math related clips of the episode.  This is easy to do using UnitedStreaming or TeachersDomain.

Here are the CLIPS from teacher's domain:

• Inventing Negative Numbers (cartoon)
• Importance of the Origin (cartoon)
• Cyberchase for Real: Competing in the Northern Hemisphere Games (cracks me up)

3. Teach this song:

Same sign, add and keep

Different sign, subtract

Take the sign of the larger number 

Then you'll be exact. 

Change the minus to a plus

Change the sign that's next

Now all you do is add them up

As if they were a plus.

3. Integers Project

Click on the pic above for my Integers Project