Middle School Math Stations or Centers: Adding and Subtracting Integers

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

7 Page PDF:

Title Page

5 Stations

Answer Key