I am so excited to be working with the course 2 students on integers (whole numbers and their opposites). We will be exploring integers by talking about Soup. I tell them that there is a magical soup where they can add "hot cubes" or "cold cubes" they use actual pieces of paper to represent these and perform addition or subtraction problems. This allows students to visually see the meaning behind the integer rules and hopefully they will have a better time remembering the rules.
We will be working on subtraction on Wednesday and Thursday and on Friday students will be doing a graded worksheet with both addition and subtraction.
I realize that this is a long time to be doing addition and subtraction but students must master this concept in order to be successful in the future.
In course 3 we are starting Topic 5 linear equations. Student will be exploring y=mx form and how that relates to a table, graph and word problem. This is important for future lessons such as systems of equations and many lessons they will do next year.
