Math--Negative Numbers

Your child will be bringing home their first math journal from this year.  There are some empty pages or parts of pages that would be GREAT practice now or even over the summer.  We continue our work in unit 7 with the two big ideas being order of operations and negative numbers.  We discussed that negative numbers aren't just for use in math class.  Here are a few places we find negative numbers in the real world. . .
*below sea level
*banking
*stock market
*temperatures (especially this time of year!)
*sports--golf or even a loss of yards in football

Here are a couple of games to help strengthen our understanding of negative numbers:

Number Line Work
http://www.funbrain.com/linejump/

Ordering Positive and Negative Numbers
http://www.mathplayground.com/numberballs.html

Adding/Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
http://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_SpiderMatchIntegers.html

And here are a couple of games to review Order or Operations which we spent a couple of days learning about this week:

Order of Operations Millionaire
http://www.math-play.com/Order-of-Operations-Millionaire/order-of-operations-millionaire.html

Several Links to Order of Operations Games
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-order.html