Thursday, September 4, 2008

Adding the Opposite

Today's warm-up grew to be our entire lesson for the day!  Subtracting integers... and adding the opposite. :)  Tomorrow we'll pick back up with OOO... Order of Operations, with our newfound solidarity with integers. :)

See the posts below from class, but in particular here's what we talked about:

The Difference Between Minus and a Negative
Converting Subtraction Signs to Adding the Opposite [ IE 4 - 2 = 2 is now 4 + -2 = 2)
How this helps with subtracting integers problems [ IE -3 -(-2) is now -3 +(+2) ]

Homework is on subtracting integers!