Forgiving Your Debt

Forgiving Your Debt is a Grade 7 integer activity that puts multiplication with negative numbers into a debt-and-banking context. Students move between the roles of customer and banker, use negative-number cards to represent debt, and multiply as dice rolls change a customer’s financial position. The changing totals give students repeated practice interpreting the sign of a product instead of treating integer rules as isolated facts.

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