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🧮 7th Grade · Math7.NS.A.2Unit 4: Operations with rational numbers

Multiplying integers

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🎯 Objective: Students multiply signed numbers and explain the sign rules.

Lesson outline

  1. Patterns table.
  2. Practice.
  3. Real contexts.
  4. Exit: −4 × −6.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

7.NS.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add, subtract, multiply and divide positive and negative numbers
  • Solve real-world problems with rational numbers

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Integers📚 All 7th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Operations with rational numbers”

  1. Adding integers
  2. Subtracting integers
  3. Multiplying integers
  4. Dividing integers
  5. Rational numbers as decimals
  6. Multi-step rational problems

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