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Integers are a fundamental part of mathematics, representing both positive and negative whole numbers, including zero. Understanding integers helps students build a strong foundation for real-world applications, such as temperature changes, bank transactions, and elevation levels. This worksheet introduces key integer concepts through engaging activities, allowing students to develop confidence in working with positive and negative numbers.

Integers are a fundamental part of mathematics, representing both positive and negative whole numbers, including zero. Understanding integers helps students build a strong foundation for real-world applications, such as temperature changes, bank transactions, and elevation levels. This worksheet introduces key integer concepts through engaging activities, allowing students to develop confidence in working with positive and negative numbers.

This 30-minute activity for teachers could be used in a staff or department meeting or by a math consultant interested in increasing teacher awareness of how Indigenous knowing can be honoured within a math classroom.

Course 4: Mathematics for Teachers, like all Math Minds courses, aims to provide a coherent, theory-rich, evidence-based approach to teaching mathematics. Course 4, specifically, offers teachers a deep dive into some of the contemporary debate about mathematics pedagogy and practice. The course also looks at some more advanced mathematical ideas and how they may be dealt with in Secondary Mathematics classrooms using the ideas from Courses 1 to 3. These courses rely primarily on elementary leve

Course 3: Varying an Idea, like all Math Minds courses, aims to provide a coherent, theory-rich, evidence-based approach to teaching mathematics. Course 3, specifically, offers teachers ways to focus students’ noticing such that mathematics connections are made available to them. This approach grows out of the disciplines of Variation Theory and Pedagogy of Noticing. These courses rely primarily on elementary level mathematics, but the pedagogy can be applied to secondary content as well.

Course 2: Mini-lessons and Frequent Feedback, like all Math Minds courses, aims to provide a coherent, theory-rich, evidence-based approach to teaching mathematics. Course 2, specifically, explores in detail the many mini-lessons approach. These courses rely primarily on elementary level mathematics, but the pedagogy can be applied to secondary content as well.

Course 1: The Ravel, like all Math Minds courses, aims to provide a coherent, theory-rich, evidence-based approach to teaching mathematics. Course 1, specifically, points teachers to the networked and interconnected nature of mathematics and how that structure tell us something about how it should be taught. We also look at cognitive theory, to offer an approach based on many mini-lessons. These minilessons reduce student overwhelm and increase the teacher’s capacity to assess learning frequentl