Sparking Surprise: A Negative Number Game to Promote Productive Concepts of Addition and Subtraction

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We describe  a game that uses inexpensive and accessible materials to encourage students to make important discoveries about integer operations. Go-High/Go-Low gives students studying negative numbers a fun way to not only practice addition, subtraction, and ordering numbers, but also to discover the surprising idea that subtraction can actually lead to a greater number, depending on the number subtracted.

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2019-06-29

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Nurnberger-Haag, J., & Wernet, J. L. (2019). Sparking Surprise: A Negative Number Game to Promote Productive Concepts of Addition and Subtraction. Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, 82(1). Retrieved from https://ohiomathjournal.org/index.php/OJSM/article/view/6663

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Vol. 82: Summer 2019

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Copyright (c) 2019 Julie Nurnberger-Haag, Jamie L. Wernet

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