Curated OER
The Cuisenaire Four-Pan Algebra Balance: Limitations and Suggestions
Students illustrate the concept of balancing equations using a Four-Pan Algebra Balance. In this balancing lesson, students visualize why it is necessary to add or subtract the same quantity on both sides of an equation when solving...
Curated OER
Eating on a Budget
Students are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Signed Numbers
This tutorial on signed numbers features lesson plans, practice pages, examples, application problems, and interactive work. Teacher resources include overhead manipulatives, card games, a Bingo game, and graphing calculator downloads.
Other
Math Game Time: Adding Multiple Integers
A worksheet for practicing the addition of positive and negative numbers up to 20. An answer key is provided. The printable file can be accessed through the 'Click Here' link at the bottom of the worksheet.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Orbit Integers
Orbit Integers is a multi-player racing game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race one another while practicing adding and subtracting integers!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Path to Positive
Using the story Less than Zero by Stuart Murphy, students relate money matters to positive and negative numbers as a real-life correlation. Incorporated into this lesson, students play the path to positive game where they are required to...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Addition and Subtraction of Integers
Explores the commutative, associative, and distributive properties of integers, and rules for adding and subtracting them.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers on a Number Line
Sixth graders work with a number line and football to model adding and subtracting integers.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers With Counters
What are opposites and what happens when you add them together? Students work with counters to model adding and subtracting integers.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Add and Subtract With Negatives
Find a quick, concise explanation of how to add and subtract with negatives. Step by step examples are included to help you understand how to find the sum or difference when negative numbers are involved.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adding & Subtracting Negative Numbers
Practice solving addition and subtraction problems with integers (positive and negative numbers). Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn Lesson Plan: Bean Toss
OFCN lesson to help students understand the concept of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Adding and Subtracting Integers (Whole Numbers) Calculator
Use this calculator for adding and subtracting integers. Positive and negative whole numbers are integers. The calculator shows the work for the math and shows you when to change the sign for subtracting negative numbers.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Negative Number Addition Subtraction Quiz
Learners can test their knowledge of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers with this interactive quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adding & Subtracting Negative Numbers
Practice solving addition and subtraction problems with integers (positive and negative numbers).
PBS
Pbs: Logical Leaps: Adding Rational Numbers on the Number Line
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving a wallaby jumping contest. Add two consecutive jumps and place them on a number line, finding equivalent fractions and common denominators to do so. Backward jumps represent...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adding Negative Numbers
Practice adding positive and negative single-digit numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Human Number Line: Teacher Notes
This activity allows students to physically create a number line and work on adding and subtracting integers. This lesson can be adapted to include other concepts with real numbers.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: Adding Integers
Using several examples, this resource demonstrates how positive and negative numbers are added while applying them to real world situations.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Simplifying Multiple Signs Worksheet
Dealing with multiple positive and negative signs in an algebra equation can be a challenge for some students. This inter-active quiz from WyzAnt provides 20 multiple-sign equations and their answers for students to test their knowledge.
PBS
Pbs: Additive Inverse
This animated Math Shorts video from the Utah Education Network explains the term additive inverse and provides several examples that demonstrate the concept. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create equations and solve...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Adding Negative Numbers
Practice adding one-digit positive and negative numbers.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Fractions Average Calculator
This calculator finds the average of a set of fractions by adding all of the fractions and dividing by the number of fractions in the set. Enter positive or negative fractions, integers and mixed numbers and the calculator converts...