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Bookstore Account: Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers

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Author: Morgan Boyd
Organization:Retirement
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2592
Title:
Bookstore Account: Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
Digital Tool/Resource:
Bookstore Account
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

In this free learning activity from Illustrative Mathematics, students will be presented with a real-world problem involving Evan and his school bookstore account. Students will need to use the tricks they have learned about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers to help Evan with his school bookstore account and justify their reasoning.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 7
4. Apply and extend knowledge of operations of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers including integers, signed fractions, and decimals.

a. Identify and explain situations where the sum of opposite quantities is 0 and opposite quantities are defined as additive inverses.

b. Interpret the sum of two or more rational numbers, by using a number line and in real-world contexts.

c. Explain subtraction of rational numbers as addition of additive inverses.

d. Use a number line to demonstrate that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference, and apply this principle in real-world contexts.

e. Extend strategies of multiplication to rational numbers to develop rules for multiplying signed numbers, showing that the properties of the operations are preserved.

f. Divide integers and explain that division by zero is undefined. Interpret the quotient of integers (with a non-zero divisor) as a rational number.

g. Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division, explaining that the decimal form of a rational number terminates or eventually repeats.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Explain situations where opposite quantities combine to make zero, known as additive inverses.
  • Apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of rational numbers to describe real-world contexts.
  • Add and subtract rational numbers using number lines to show connection to distance
  • Explain the connection between subtraction and addition of additive inverses.
  • Model multiplication and division of rational numbers (number horizontal and vertical number lines, integer chips, bar models).
  • Use properties of operations to multiply signed numbers.
  • Convert rational numbers to a decimal using long division and determine if the result is terminating or repeating.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Integers
  • Rational numbers
  • Additive inverses
  • opposite quantities
  • Absolute value
  • Terminating decimals
  • Repeating decimals
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • a number and its opposite have a sum of 0.
  • A number and its opposite are called additive inverses.
  • Strategies for adding and subtracting two or more numbers.
  • Absolute value represents distance on a number line, therefore it is always non-negative.
  • Strategies for multiplying signed numbers.
  • Every quotient of integers (with non-zero divisor) is a rational number.
  • If p and q are integers, then -(p/q) = (-p)/q = p/(-q).
  • The decimal form of a rational number terminates or eventually repeats.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • add rational numbers.
  • Subtract rational numbers.
  • Represent addition and subtraction on a number line diagram.
  • Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0.
  • Find the opposite of a number.
  • Interpret sums of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.
  • Show that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference.
  • Use absolute value in real-world contexts involving distances.
  • Multiply and divide rational numbers.
  • Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • finding sums and differences of rational numbers (negative and positive) involves determining direction and distance on the number line.
  • Subtraction of rational numbers is the same as adding the additive inverse, p - q = p + (-q).
  • If a factor is multiplied by a number greater than one, the answer is larger than that factor.
  • If a factor is multiplied by a number between 0 and 1, the answer is smaller than that factor.
  • Multiplication is extended from fractions to rational numbers by requiring that operations continue to satisfy the properties of operations, leading to products such as (-1)(-1) = 1 and the rules for multiplying signed numbers.
  • Integers can be divided, provided that the divisor is not zero.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.7.4.1: Define rational numbers, horizontal, and vertical.
M.7.4.2: Recall how to extend a horizontal number line.
M.7.4.3: Recall how to extend a vertical number line.
M.7.4.4: Demonstrate addition and subtraction of whole numbers using a horizontal or vertical number line.
M.7.4.5: Give examples of rational numbers.
M.7.4.6: Define absolute value and additive inverse.
M.7.4.7: Explain that the sum of a number and its opposite is zero.
M.7.4.8: Locate positive, negative, and zero numbers on a number line.
M.7.4.9: Recall properties of addition and subtraction.
M.7.4.10: Model addition and subtraction using manipulatives.
M.7.4.11: Show addition and subtraction of 2 or more rational numbers using a number line within real-world context.
M.7.4.12: Define absolute value and additive inverse.
M.7.4.13: Show subtraction as the additive inverse.
M.7.4.14: Give examples of the opposite of a given number.
M.7.4.15: Show addition and subtraction using a number line.
M.7.4.16: Discuss various strategies for solving real-world and mathematical problems.
M.7.4.17: Identify properties of operations for addition and subtraction.
M.7.4.18: Recall the steps for solving addition and subtraction of rational numbers.
M.7.4.19: Identify the difference between two rational numbers on a number line.
M.7.4.20: Recall the steps of solving multiplication of rational numbers.
M.7.4.21: Identify the pattern for multiplying signed numbers.
M.7.4.22: Recall the steps of solving division of rational numbers.
M.7.4.23: Explain that dividing a rational number zero is undefined.
M.7.4.24: Recall that a fraction can be written as a division problem.
M.7.4.25: Recall the steps to divide two rational numbers.
M.7.4.26: Identify whether a decimal is terminating or repeating.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Define parentheses, braces, and brackets.
  • Recall addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
  • Identify two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size or the same point on a number line.
  • Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3. Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
  • Generate equivalent fractions.
  • Show on a number line that numbers that are equal distance from 0 and on opposite sides of 0 have opposite signs.
  • Define rational number.
  • Arrange integers and /or rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line.
  • Locate the position of integers and/or rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line.
  • Identify a rational number as a point on the number line.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.7.4 Add and subtract integers up to 15.


Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 7
Accelerated
8. Apply and extend knowledge of operations of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers including integers, signed fractions, and decimals.

a. Identify and explain situations where the sum of opposite quantities is 0 and opposite quantities are defined as additive inverses. 

b. Interpret the sum of two or more rational numbers, by using a number line and in real-world contexts.

c. Explain subtraction of rational numbers as addition of additive inverses.

d. Use a number line to demonstrate that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference, and apply this principle in real-world contexts.

e. Extend strategies of multiplication to rational numbers to develop rules for multiplying signed numbers, showing that the properties of the operations are preserved.

f. Divide integers and explain that division by zero is undefined. Interpret the quotient of integers (with a non-zero divisor) as a rational number.

g. Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division, explaining that the decimal form of a rational number terminates or eventually repeats. [Grade 7, 4]
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of rational numbers to describe real-world contexts.
  • Use physical and visual models to add and subtract integers.
  • Add and subtract rational numbers.
  • Model multiplication and division of rational numbers.
  • Apply the distributive property to rational numbers.
  • Convert rational numbers to a decimal using long division to determine if the result is terminating or repeating.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Integers
  • Rational numbers
  • Additive inverses
  • opposite quantities
  • Absolute value
  • Terminating decimals
  • Repeating decimals
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • a number and its opposite have a sum of 0.
  • A number and its opposite are called additive inverses.
  • properties of operations.
  • Absolute value represents distance on a number line, therefore it is always non-negative.
  • Every quotient of integers (with non-zero divisor) is a rational number.
  • If p and q are integers, then -(p/q) = (-p)/q = p/(-q).
  • The decimal form of a rational number terminates in 0s or eventually repeats.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • add rational numbers.
  • Subtract rational numbers.
  • Represent addition and subtraction on a number line diagram.
  • Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0.
  • Find the opposite of a number.
  • Interpret sums of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.
  • Show that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference.
  • Use absolute value in real-world contexts involving distances.
  • Multiply and divide rational numbers.
  • Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • p + q is the number located a distance |q| from p, in the positive or negative direction depending on whether q is positive or negative.
  • Subtraction of rational numbers is the same as adding the additive inverse, p - q = p + (-q).
  • If a factor is multiplied by a number greater than one, the answer is larger than that factor.
  • If a factor is multiplied by a number between 0 and 1, the answer is smaller than that factor.
  • Multiplication is extended from fractions to rational numbers by requiring that operations continue to satisfy the properties of operations, particularly the distributive property, leading to products such as (-1)(-1) = 1 and the rules for multiplying signed numbers.
  • Integers can be divided, provided that the divisor is not zero.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:
- apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of rational numbers to describe real-world contexts.

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

Students should have been introduced to adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers and have had an opportunity to explore adding and subtracting them. The teacher may choose to review the rules for adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers as an introduction to this learning activity. This activity can be used to give students the chance to demonstrate their knowledge of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers and explain their thinking.

The teacher should provide the students with a link to the website Bookstore Account or provide hard copies that can be downloaded and distributed (one per student).

The students should have discovered in class the following tricks for adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers:

The first number tells you where to start and in which way to look:

  • Negative – left
  • Positive – right

The second number tells you how far to move and in which direction to move:

  • Negative – backward
  • Positive – forwards

During this learning activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers by helping Evan solve his real-world school bookstore problem. Students will then explain why it would make sense to use a negative number to represent Evan’s account.

The teacher should walk around the room and observe for any students who might be struggling.

Assessment Strategies:

The real-world Bookstore Account problem will be used to assess students’ mastery of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. There is a solution available on the website.


Advanced Preparation:

The teacher needs an internet-connected device to present the problem on an interactive whiteboard if he/she chooses to present the problem to the whole class.

The hardcopy can be placed under a document camera and projected if no internet-connected device is available.

Copies will need to be made of the Bookstore Account problem and distributed if no internet-connected devices are available.

Variation Tips (optional):

Students who are struggling may need to be paired with stronger students. Struggling students may need to watch the video again.

Notes or Recommendations (optional):

ALCOS 2019

7.4). Apply and extend knowledge of operations of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers including integers, signed fractions, and decimals. 

  • a. Identify and explain situations where the sum of opposite quantities is 0 and opposite quantities are defined as additive inverses.

  • b. Interpret the sum of two or more rational numbers, by using a number line and in real-world contexts.

  • c. Explain the subtraction of rational numbers as the addition of additive inverses.

  • d. Use a number line to demonstrate that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference and apply this principle in real-world contexts.

  • e. Extend strategies of multiplication to rational numbers to develop rules for multiplying signed numbers, showing that the properties of the operations are preserved.

  • f. Divide integers and explain that division by zero is undefined. Interpret the quotient of integers (with a non-zero divisor) is a rational number.

  • g. Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division, explaining that the decimal form of a rational number terminates or eventually repeats.
  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: adding, Integers, negative numbers, number line, positive numbers, subtracting