In this brief interactive activity, students explore the concept of multiplying positive and negative integers. The real-world application is hot-air balloon flights. One interactive segment walks students through a review of the distributive property and demonstrates that a positive integer multiplied by a negative integer will result in a negative integer. The concept of mathematical opposites is also briefly reviewed and reinforced, but this lesson does not duplicate the material in the preceding lesson.
Algebra
ACTIVITY MODULE
Seventh grade