Integers

This page contains activities to promote an understanding of integers and their use. If you have developed activities applying to this area you may like to share them with other mathematics teachers.

 

Integer Flowchart
Filename: IntegerFlowchart.doc (43 Kb)
Date: 1-Jun-98
Submitted By: Jon Basden
Format: MS Word Document
Description: This is a review sheet that summarizes the procedures for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

Integer Magic
Filename: jn_in001.doc (22 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: MS Word Document
Description: A Diabolical Square is a magic square that also has a constant sum along 'broken diagonals' and within 2x2 sub-squares. Integer Prediction is a great activity to revise integer addition. Both items are based on Martin Gardner articles from Scientific American.

Why is a Negative times a Negative a Pos
Filename: jn_in002.txt (24 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: Unknown FileType
Description: On the NCTM-L mailing list, there has been a long running discussion on how to best teach integer multiplication. This is a compilation of the discussion. If you can't find a method here that you like, I think you may never find one.