This product includes four pages of guided notes. Students can easily work on this independently, in cooperative groups, or as a whole class. Included are detailed suggestions on ideas for teaching the reasoning behind the integer rules for multiplication. It helps students encounter the ways to prove the rules, using ideas like "the opposite of" to represent negative symbols, grouping/chip boards,patterns, and real world cases like temperature over time.

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