This past week we covered Adding and Subtracting Integers. It was rough. We talked about when we add we can sing the Adding Integers song:
Same sign add and keep
Different sign subtract
Use the sign of the larger base
and it will be exact
They did pretty well with that (so I thought). Subtraction was harder for them. We talked about "adding the opposite" but it didn't stick with a lot of them. For those students who are going to retake the quiz I'm going to teach them "LoCO." Leave... Change... Opposite. Something they were doing was changing the first number, changing the sign, not taking the opposite. I'm hoping that LoCO will help because it's more specific.
I sent out progress reports yesterday and have already had quite a few emails from parents and kids both asking about the retake. Yikes!
Fractions are next...
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