Integers – Representing, Comparing and Ordering
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CLIP 1: Using Integers to Describe Location
Activity 1.1: Mathotel
a) In this activity, the Conference Room is one floor below the Vending Machines.
How else could you describe the location of the Conference Room?
b)
In another hotel design the Arcade is located 3 floors
below the Pool and the Pool is located 5 floors above
the Restaurant.
Indicate where these floors might be located on the
given elevator panel.
Place another feature on an empty floor.
Describe the location of this feature.
c)
How could the hotel label the elevator buttons for the levels below the Lobby Check-in
level?
Activity 1.2: Mathotel Design
a) Describe the set of Integers.
b)
Choose another design or create your own design and
add those labels to the elevator panel given.
What feature is located at floor 3 in your design?
Name one feature that is located below floor 0. What
integer could be used to describe the location of that
feature?
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Activity 1.3 Integer Number Lines
a) Complete the following statements:
The opposite of +7 is ___________
The opposite of -12 is _____________
b)
Explain what it means for two integers to be opposites.
c)
The number line shown below is scaled by 5’s. What does that mean?
What two numbers are shown on the above number line? __________ and _________
Show where the integers 45, -50, +7 and -22 are located on the above number line.
How did you decide where to place +7 and -22?
d)
If you wanted to show the numbers 80 and -25 on a number line, what scale would you
use? Why?
On a different number line , what scale would you use to show the numbers -7 and +3?
Why?
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Activity 1.4: Integer Adventure Contest
Use the number line given on the right to answer the following questions.
a) Draw a smiley face at the integer that is neither negative nor positive.
b)
What integer corresponds to the key shown on the number line?
c)
Draw a second key that is the same vertical distance away from the
smiley face as the given key. What integer corresponds to your new
key?
d)
Draw a balloon at +16
e)
Draw a flower at -19.
Activity 1.5: Integer DropBall
What level did you get up to?
What strategies did you use when playing the game?
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CLIP 2: Comparing and Ordering Integers
Activity 2.1: What’s My Floor
Activity 2.2: A Range ‘n Temperatures
Activity 2.3: Hockey
Activity 2.4: Greater or Less Than
Activity 2.5: Diamond Drop
Activity 2.6: Battle of the Integers
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CLIP 3: Using Integers to Describe Change
Activity 3.1: Elevator Ride
Activity 3.2: Exploring Mathotel
Activity 3.3: Kipper’s Capers
Activity 3.4: A Fishy Story
Activity 3.5: Counter Act
Activity 3.6: Arcade Fun
Activity 3.7: Scuba Diving
Activity 3.8: Representing Integers
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