Curated OER
What is the Value of the Car?
Students practice determining the value of cars. Using the internet, they complete a worksheet in which they list the make of each car and use the data to determine the value. They share their results with the class and identify the most...
Curated OER
Extreme Elevations
Seventh graders use highest and lowest points of land elevation around the world to find the differences. Sea level is zero, so students be operating with positive and negative numbers. After students find the information on the...
Curated OER
Number Lines, Variables, Solving for One Variable
Review basic algebraic rules of addition of integers. Then have the class define a variable and explore methods of solving equations with one variable. They observe solving expressions using inverse operations and simplifying solutions....
Curated OER
Introduction to Pre-Algebra
Students explore adding and subtracting positive numbers. Students discuss the use of algebra in our daily lives. They examine the algebraic equations and observe their solutions. Students work on the board and at their desks to solve...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Addition & Subtraction Equations
Zoe is decorating a cake for her grandpa's birthday and needs to know how many more candles to add. Follow along as she explains how to set up and solve algebraic equations in this step-by-step presentation. Equations with negative...
Alabama Learning Exchange
As If Numbers Weren't Complex Enough Already!
The class explores the concept of complex numbers on a website to generate their own Mandelbrot sets. They will practice performing operations with complex numbers and then to get a visual understanding, graph the absolute value of a...
Curriculum Corner
7th Grade Math Common Core Checklist
With so many math standards to fit into a school year, it can be difficult keeping track of what you have and have not covered. This collection of Common Core checklists allows you to maintain a running record of when each...
Curriculum Corner
7th Grade Math "I Can" Statement Posters
Translate the Common Core math standards into a series of achievable "I can" statements with this collection of classroom displays. Offering posters for each standard, this resource is a great way to support your seventh graders as...
Curated OER
Algebra Bingo
Students review rules for adding and subtracting negative and positive integers. They discuss the rules of bingo and play the game which requires students to add, subtract, multiplication, or divide positive and negative integers.
Curated OER
Arithmetic: Fractions
For this fractions instructional activity, students add positive and negative fractions with unlike denominators. They compute a fractional part of a number. This six-page instructional activity contains approximately 20 problems....
Curated OER
Adding Integers
In this integer worksheet, students solve 12 problems, adding integers. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
Curated OER
Adding Integers II
In this adding integers worksheet, students solve 10 problems, adding integers. Students may click on hint or check answer buttons. Page has links to additional resources.
Curated OER
Ten Subtraction Problems
In this subtraction worksheet, students solve ten problems in which one digit numbers are subtracted. Some of the answers will result in negative numbers.
Curated OER
A McTrip Back In Time
Students pretend they are time-travellers and travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed. They need to add and subtract money with regrouping.
Curated OER
When Am I Ever Going to Use this?
Students solve problems using equations and properties of integers. In this algebra instructional activity, students solve problems using ratio and proportion and graph their answers on a coordinate plane. They solve word problems using...
Curated OER
Solving Systems by Elimination
Students review solving absolute value equations. They watch as the teacher demonstrates solving a system of linear equations by addition. Students practice working problems by multiplying to obtain opposite cooefficients, and then...
Curated OER
Number Line Relay
Young scholars investigate the placements of numbers on a number line. In this algebra lesson, students visualise addition and subtraction on a number line.
Curated OER
Math Jeopardy: Basic Skills
Students play a PowerPoint activity to be used as a review of basic skills for order of operations, and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for whole numbers, some fractional numbers and integers....
Curated OER
Adding Integers Using an Integer Line
In this integers instructional activity, students use integer lines to add the positive and negative numbers. They can show the answers online.
Curated OER
A Human Number Line
Eighth graders act out a number line using integers -10 to 10 on large cards. They practice addition and subtraction of these integers to gain explain the relative size of numbers.
Curated OER
Additive Inverses
Students investigate properties of additive inverses. In this properties of additive inverses lesson, students discuss the what it means for two numbers to be opposites. Students discuss representing opposite numbers using a...
Curated OER
The Cuisenaire Four-Pan Algebra Balance: Limitations and Suggestions
Young scholars illustrate the concept of balancing equations using a Four-Pan Algebra Balance. In this balancing lesson, students visualize why it is necessary to add or subtract the same quantity on both sides of an equation when...
Benjamin Franklin High School
Saxon Math: Algebra 2 (Section 1)
This first of twelve algebra 2 resources provides a broad review of many algebra 1 concepts through a number of separable lessons and labs. Starting with the real number system and its subsystems, the sections quickly but thoroughly...
Curated OER
Dr. Al Gebra
Young math whizzes role play a doctor operating on a patient without diagnosing the patient's condition. They relate this medical malpractice to performing a mathematical operation before evaluating conditions or deciding what the...