Subject: Mathematics
Topics: Use of integers ( zero, positive and negative natural numbers) in common situations
Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Evaluation, Creativity, Problem Solving
Time Needed: Two 45-minute lessons
Unit Summary
To learn about integers, students examine the many real world situations. Students group up to share and observe with each other. Finally, groups present their observations to the class.
Curriculum-Framing Questions
Essential Question
Do you know how integers come in play in a real world situations?
Content Questions
What is an integer?
Assessment Processes
These assessments help students and teachers see the use of integers; monitor student progress; provide feedback; assess thinking, processes, performances, products; and reflect on learning throughout the instructional cycle.
Instructional Procedures
To observe all the different outcomes that students gathered.
Activity procedures:
- Group up students.
- Ask students to share in their outcomes to the group.
- Each group will then share the top three real world situations.
Ask students the following questions:
Did you realize all the uses of integers in real world situation?
In math journals, have students reflect on what they’ve learned from
- the groups and make a list of all the situations that they have done in their life.
Putting it all Together
Have students share with their group in round-robin fashion what they brainstormed in their journals the previous day. Students then apply what they have learned as they take on the role of the teacher.
To help students with the planning and implementing of their ideas, encourage students to use the following guiding questions to promote metacognition skills:
- What information do I need?
- What resources do I have?
- What are the smaller tasks within this big project?
- What do I have to do in a particular order and what can I do any time?
- What problems might come up and how do I handle them?
Model a think-aloud beforehand, so students are aware of strategies to use while exploring these questions in-depth. While students are using these metacognitive guiding questions, take anecdotal notes to document students’ thinking processes.
Wrapping Up
Return to the Essential Question, Do you know how integers come in play in a real world situations? Ask students to think about how they responded to the question at the beginning of the unit. Encourage them to write about what they have learned about these things over the course of the unit and to provide as much detail and examples as possible.
Time Needed: Two 45-minute lessons
Unit Summary
To learn about integers, students examine the many real world situations. Students group up to share and observe with each other. Finally, groups present their observations to the class.
Curriculum-Framing Questions
Ask students the following questions:
Did you realize all the uses of integers in real world situation?
In math journals, have students reflect on what they’ve learned from
Have students share with their group in round-robin fashion what they brainstormed in their journals the previous day. Students then apply what they have learned as they take on the role of the teacher.
To help students with the planning and implementing of their ideas, encourage students to use the following guiding questions to promote metacognition skills:
