Integer Operations Lesson: Properties & Mental Math, Grades 6-8

Once students know the sign rules, properties of operations turn hard-looking products into mental math. This lesson teaches a two-job habit: first the sign (count the negative factors), then the size (multiply without the signs, in any order). Commutative, associative and distributive properties are used as strategies with signed numbers, not just named.

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