Integers Introduction Lesson - Worksheets, Games, Riddles - Grade 6

Introduce your students to integers with these highly engaging activities. These worksheets are perfect for practicing reading and representing positive and negative integers on both horizontal and vertical number lines. Two hands-on games will have your students use integers to move in different directions on number lines, developing the necessary skills needed before adding and subtracting integers. Next, your students will use integers to represent the location of animals in an ocean ecosystem. Your students will also love solving a riddle using integers to represent everyday examples of positive and negative integers.

Grade 6 Ontario Math Curriculum Expectation:

B1.2

read and represent integers, using a variety of tools and strategies, including horizontal and vertical number lines

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

• Tips Sheet: This detailed guide will provide a breakdown of each part of the lesson.

• Getting Started: Students learn about real-life examples of integers and how they can be represented on a horizontal or vertical number line with positive and negative numbers.
• Number line Riddle Worksheet: Students practice reading integers on a number line to solve a riddle.

• Working On It Games: Students play the GAMES “Walk the Plank” and “Cops vs Robbers” to become accustomed to moving on both horizontal and vertical number lines with integers.

• Working On It Ocean Ecosystem: Students practice locating animals on a vertical number line and then use integers to represent their location. The 2nd version integrates science by using the classifications of the animals instead of their common names.

• Exit Ticket: Students independently solve a riddle by representing real-life situations with integers and then placing them on a number line. Students answer questions about representing integers on number lines.

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OTHER MATH ACTIVITIES BY BLUE SKY SCHOLASTICS:

• Place Value Bundle - Grade 6 New Ontario Curriculum
• Plotting and Reading Coordinates in all 4 Quadrants of the Cartesian Plane
• Comparing Whole Numbers up to Millions - 3 Part Lesson - Problem Solving
• Place Value Mysteries - 3 Part Problem-Solving Lesson, The Price is Right Games
• Place Value Expanded Form Riddle Worksheet
• Place Value Expanded Form Powers of 10 Riddle Worksheet
• Adding Whole Numbers and Checking for Reasonableness Problem Solving Lesson
• Adding Decimals and Estimating - 3 Part Lesson - Problem Solving Activities
• Comparing Whole Numbers up to 6 or 7 digits - Greater than, Less than
• Math Problem Solving Strategy Stations - Developing Problem Solving Skills

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