Adding Integers With Manipulatives
Adding Integers With Manipulatives
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Positive Numbers: Numbers that live
on the right side of the number line.
Negative Numbers: Numbers that live
on the left side of the number line
Neutral: when one positive and one
negative number come together and
cancel each other out.
Steps:
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Set Up Problem
Represent the first number with
manipulatives
Below it, represent your second number
with manipulatives.
Do any of the manipulatives cancel out?
Count how many red or yellow dots you
have left.
This is your answer. If they are yellow
Examples
1.
-5 + 8
2.
6 + -9
3.
-5 + -2
1. Set Up Problem
2. Represent the first number
with manipulatives
3. Below it, represent your
second number with
manipulatives.
4. Do any of the manipulatives
cancel out?
5. Count how many red or
yellow dots you have left.
6. This is your answer. If they
are yellow dots, the answer
is positive. If they are red
dots, it is negative.
-3 + 8
1. Set Up Problem
2. Represent the first number with manipulatives
3. Below it, represent your second number with
manipulatives.
4. Do any of the manipulatives cancel out?
5. Count how many red or yellow dots you have
left.
-5 + (-4)
-9 + 4
11 + (-7)
3+5
6 + (-2)
If you need
the steps,
refer to your
notes!
Closing
Remember that list we made?
Lets revisit it. Is the list still
good?
Lets add two more!
Exit Ticket
7 + (-4)