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How to Teach Integers With Positive and Negative Numbers

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Are you looking for ways to teach positive and negative numbers as part of your integers lessons? We spent time finding activities that can be used to teach, reinforce, practice, review and assess integers in your upper elementary classroom.

In upper elementary, we’re asked to teach positive and negative numbers. This is when we start to refer to numbers as integers, which means reframing math vocabulary for our students. Come learn how we teach integers in our upper elementary math class.

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How to Add Candy to Your Math Lessons

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A pile of candy to use in candy math lessons.

Candy will engage students in any lesson, so why not get some math out of it? We have found our students are very motivated by food. For many of them, it is a treat they don’t get often. Candy math lessons are an easy way to sweeten up your unit.

There are lots of ways to incorporate candy into your math lessons, so we’ve gathered a list of ideas. Once you get started, you’ll see the possibilities for yourself.

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