Multiplying and Dividing Integers: Essential Handout/Cheat Sheet

Do you need a single cheat sheet or succinct handout for your multiplying and dividing integers unit? This page has it all in one place: perfect for your students to refer back to again and again throughout multiple lessons.

How to Use:

Use this handout at the beginning of your unit to introduce the ideas behind the integer rules for multiplication and division. Have your students complete the sample questions as a quick assessment or homework task. Remind your students to refer back to this sheet when they are unsure about integer rules. Even allow some (or all) of your students to use it as a reminder/aid during the unit test!

Three Parts:

• - Visual & color-coded cheat sheet

• - Sample real-life scenarios to demonstrate each rule (even why negative times negative is a positive!)

  • [For example: You owe some friends $6 each. If 2 friends take those debts away:

    -2 x -$6 = +$12 You have $12 more.]

• - 15 Practice questions

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Grades to Use With: This handout is perfect for the middle grades (5-9) when you are introducing integer rules. It could also be useful in a high school special education classroom.

What's Included:

2 Page PDF: Title Page and One-Page Student Handout and Worksheet

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.

CCSS7.NS.A.2c

Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide rational numbers.

CCSS7.NS.A.3

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

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