Teaching Resource
Integer Number Sentences - Polygon Puzzle
A puzzle using addition and subtraction number sentences involving integers.
Use this teaching resource when exploring addition and subtraction of integers (positive and negative numbers).
Students cut out the polygons and scramble them up. Then, they put the puzzle back together by placing the matching answers next to each other.
Students can glue the puzzle back together on a piece of paper to turn in for grading purposes.
An answer sheet has also been provided.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.5
Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use ...

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