Adding and Subtracting with integers

**Description: **

This resource is a lesson plan for Year 8 Maths teachers who teach Integers, specifically, adding and subtracting integers. It will help you teach a smooth lesson even if you do not have a strong mathematical background. Just run the PowerPoint.

**Learning Objectives: **

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
• Understand the similarities and differences between negative and minus, and positive and add
• Add and subtract two integers with and without digital technology

Links to curricula:

Carry out the four operations with rational numbers and integers, using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA183)

Standards or Specifications:

The lesson follows the explicit teaching method. I DO, YOU DO, WE DO.
There is a Lesson Focus & Success Criteria slide with learning objectives.
At the end of the PowerPoint file, there is a homework slide. The suggested pages and the question numbers in it are for the book Maths Quest 8, published by Jacaranda.

How to use it

The lesson format is in a PowerPoint file. There are symbols to prompt certain actions in the lesson. They have the following meanings:
• W: Write from the board
• I DO – Teacher does the question (step by step solution).
• WE DO – Teacher prompts students to participate, asks questions and helps them with solutions where necessary.
• YOU DO – Students work independently.