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Painting by Negative Numbers
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Painting by Negative Numbers

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Subject MathThe Number System
Grade Level Grades 6-8
Resource Type Activity
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Far simpler than the negative number maze; this can be used with lower ability students but still has some degree of complexity to some questions.Students should be encouraged to work out all their answers first and then to color using the key (you can check their colors first to make sure they haven't gone wrong). Common mistake - students use the key and apply it to the numbers in the image but these refer to the question numbers. This makes an image of the 4 main South Park characters (upside down to avoid any early guesses).

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February 11, 2020
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SML Member
SML Member April 17, 2012

Brilliant activity! My class will love it, thanks!!

Icirino
Icirino October 03, 2012

As I completed the problems and the students got some answers that were positive and others that were negative, how were they to choose which numbers to color in if the numbers in the diagram had no distinction between which were negative and which were positive? Were they just supposed to color in the numbers regardless of the sign? if so, how were they to utilize the different colors assigned to the different signed numbers??

Caraeo
Caraeo May 13, 2013

On the coloring part, there are no negative integers. This could be a lot of fun if it had the negatives in there.

Olivoj
Olivoj March 23, 2014

Great way to reinforce this skill!

oresend
oresend September 22, 2022
Directions

You do not color based on the answer of the problem but by the color that problem is assigned to. Example: if problem #1 is assigned purple based on the answer, then all the #1's should be colored purple.

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