Lesson Plan: Adding Integers Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to add positive and negative integers in both abstract and real-world contexts.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- add positive and negative integers,
- use a number line to perform addition with negative numbers,
- recognize that adding a negative gives the same result as subtracting the same positive value,
- write and evaluate a sum involving positive and negative integers from a real-world context.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- positive and negative integers,
- adding positive integers,
- number lines.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- multiplying and dividing by positive and negative integers,
- the order of operations,
- absolute value.