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Adding And Subtracting Integers Online Practice

Each station approaches signed-number operations from a different angle. Learners solve real-world situations, generate positive and negative values with dice, compare temperatures from warm and cold locations, model gains and losses on a football field, and complete a final computation set with number-line explanation. Moving among the stations combines individual calculation with peer discussion. A completed reference distinguishes fixed results from activities whose responses depend on rolls or selected cities.
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Grades 4–7
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Updated Mar 21, 2023

Subject
Measurements, Subtraction, Addition and Subtraction, Math
Topic
Math Stations, Integers
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About this resource

Math stations are a great way to get students engaged as they move about the room and work collaboratively with their peers.

But they are a lot of work to prepare!

This ready-to-go set of 5 stations will supplement a unit about adding and subtracting integers.

Ways to Use: You can break your class into 5 groups and have them rotate one at a time through the centres, giving them 10-20 minutes at each one. Or, start students at certain centres and then allow them to move around at their own pace as long as no one centre gets too full. I find these are a great resource as you are finishing your unit and preparing for the unit test.

Station 1: Students solve four realistic word problems using integers.

(optional: set out white boards for students to use)

Station 2: Students play a dice game to practice adding and subtracting integers.

(supplies needed: 2 dice per pair- they must be different in some way so one can be + and one can be -)

Station 3: Students compare temperatures in two cities (in degrees Celsius) and create a number line. Online game extension.

(supplies needed: laptop or tablet)

Station 4: Students use integers to decide if a football team would score a touchdown based on 8 plays.

Station 5: Students do an integer drill and explain their thinking about integers in words.

Grades to Use With:

These stations will work well in grades 4-7 or high school special education classrooms.

Standards:

CCSS6.NS.C.5

Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

If you enjoy these math stations, check out my other packs of 5 stations each for intermediate and middle school math classrooms:

5 Math Stations for Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite

5 Math Stations for Decimals and Percent

5 Math Stations for Early Algebra

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Add and subtract positive and negative integers

  • Represent signed change with a number line or contextual model

  • Compare integer results and explain why one value is greater

Teaching tips

  • Assign a clear materials tray and recording sheet to each station before rotation.

  • At the weather station, verify that selected temperatures use the same unit before comparison.

Skills covered

  • Integer operations — learners calculate gains, losses, and signed totals.

  • Modeling — temperature, money, and field position give meaning to direction.

  • Collaboration — station tasks require discussion and shared checking.

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