Understanding, comparing, and operating with integers is engaging and meaningful with the help of real world context and a vertical number line. Your students can make sense of how we add and subtract integers!

Included in this lesson pack:

• Large vertical number line representing sea level (color & black ink versions)
• 22 moveable cards with sea creatures and objects (color & black ink versions)
• Over 60 exploration word problems
• Card sort: Matching real world context with integer expressions
• Answer Keys

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Assemble the large number line to serve as a visual reference for building conceptual understanding of positive and negative numbers. Then use the included activities to guide your students in exploring integer relations, absolute value, addition, and subtraction.

These resources will help your students develop the following skills:

• Comparing positives and negatives
• Understanding absolute value
• Finding distances between integers
• Adding and subtracting integers
• Relating expressions and operations to real world context
• Reasoning as they solve

Plus, the activities are engaging! The practice problems guide students in deepening their understanding. You can also create your own great classroom discussions by moving the animal creatures around on the number line.

Answer keys to the student practice sheets are included. The practice problem sets A through P are also included in a PowerPoint if you want to display them on a large screen for discussion.