GOING UP ? - PARKING GARAGE
ADDING AND SUBTRACTING INTEGERS
Represent, describe and solve contextual problems involving addition and subtraction of integers.
Intentionality
Spark Curiosity
Fuel Sensemaking
During Moves
Student Approaches
Next Moves
Consolidation
Reflect and Consolidation Prompts
Resources & Downloads
Educator Discussion Area
Intentionality & Unit Overview
Length of Unit: 5 Days
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Students will model addition and subtraction contexts involving positive and negative integers in order to solve various problems.
In this task, students will represent the addition and subtraction of positive and negative integers using the context of a parking garage. The scenarios in Day 1 and 2 of this unit will provide the start, the change, and the result will be unknown. Students will describe the position of the car relative to ground level and then add or subtract levels depending on the car’s relocation. They will describe the result of moving the car from one floor to another. Today’s context will create an opportunity to introduce the linear model for solving problems involving negative values. Some of the big ideas revealed in today’s lesson include:
- Situations involving addition and subtraction can be modelled using a number line;
- Integers include zero, all whole numbers and their opposites;
- Integers represented on a number line show their relative distance from zero;
- Some addition and subtraction scenarios follow the structure of start, change and result;
- An integer can represent a change or a quantity;
- When a positive and a negative integer are added together, the result is positive if the absolute value of the positive integer is greater than the absolute value of the negative integer.
Spark Curiosity
What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?
Show students the following video:
Then, ask students:
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
Give students 60 seconds (or more) to do a rapid write on a piece of paper.
Then, ask students to share with their neighbours for another 60 seconds.
Finally, allow students to share with the entire group.
Some of the noticing and wondering that came up in a class recently included:
- I notice a street with buildings.
- I notice a large building in the middle.
- I notice there is a car in the building.
- I wonder if it is a parking garage.
- I notice there are twelve levels.
- I wonder why there is a car inside.
- I notice it says ground level.
At this point, you can answer any notices and wonders that you can cross off the list right away. Confirm for students that this building is in fact a parking garage. If it does not emerge through student noticing, ask students to describe the location of the car. For example, the car is three levels below ground level.
Estimation: Prompt
Next, share the following visual prompt briefly and ask the following question:
Each floor in this parking lot is labelled to ensure that all customers can remember where they parked their car. How do you think floors are labelled? Justify your answer.
Estimation: Reveal
Share the following video and or image revealing how the floors in the parking garage have been labelled.
Give students an opportunity to discuss why they may have chosen to label the floors in this way. Point out for students that in this scenario, they are treating the ground level as level 0. All other floors are relative to the ground level.
Fuel Sense-making
Crafting A Productive Struggle:
Monitor student thinking by circulating around the room and listening to the mathematical discourse. Select and sequence some of the student solution strategies and ask a student from the selected groups to share with the class from:
- most accessible to least accessible solution strategies and representations;
- most common misconceptions;
- most common/frequent to least common/frequent representations; or,
- choose another approach to selecting and sequencing student work.
The tools and representations you might see students using to convince their peers and/or the teacher include:
- Using a pictorial representation.
- Counting.
- Skip Counting.
- Using a linear model to show the change.
- Using a standard algorithm.
Have students share their reasoning for determining the new location of the driver’s car and their equation. Discuss their thinking during your consolidation to build off of their current prior knowledge and understanding rather than “fixing” or “funnelling” student thinking to a representation and justification that does not connect to their understanding.
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During Moves
While Students Are Productively Struggling….
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Student Approaches
Student Approach #1: Using a Pictorial Representation and Counting
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Student Approach #2: Using a Number Line and Reasoning
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Next Moves
Reveal
Show students the following reveal video:
Consolidation
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Reflect and Consolidation Prompts
Provide students an opportunity to reflect on their learning by offering these consolidation prompts to be completed independently.
Consolidation Prompt #1:
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Consolidation Prompt #2:
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We suggest collecting this reflection as an additional opportunity to engage in the formative assessment process to inform next steps for individual students as well as how the whole class will proceed.
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