We want our kids to understand what they are doing in math and not just memorize algorithms like "Keep, Change, Change" or sing songs "same signs add and keep ... " The first step to understand integers is to understand the meanings that we assign to positive and negative. While we say that -1,000,000 is less than -1,000, the reality of owing a million is very different than owing 1000. This is were understanding absolute value gives meaning to the real life problems. These resources will help