Using Zero Pairs to Add Integers with Tiles

📝 Practice Worksheets

Adding and Subtracting Integers Pratice Adding Integers Practice Adding Integers - 2

🛠️ Related Tools

Integer Chips Explorer - Identifying Zero Pairs

🔑 Key Concepts

Positive tiles represent positive numbers.
Negative tiles represent negative numbers.
A positive tile and a negative tile together form a zero pair.
Zero pairs cancel out because their sum equals zero.
After removing zero pairs, count the tiles that remain.

💡 Main Idea

Integer tiles help students visualize positive and negative numbers. When solving integer problems, look for zero pairs first. A zero pair consists of one positive tile and one negative tile. These cancel out, leaving only the remaining tiles to determine the final answer.

✏️ Worked Examples — Using Zero Pairs

🧠 Math Vocabulary

Integer: A positive number, negative number, or zero.
Positive Number: A number greater than zero.
Negative Number: A number less than zero.
Zero Pair: A positive and negative number that cancel each other out.
Integer Tiles: Visual models used to represent positive and negative numbers.

📚 What You Should Already Know

Students should understand positive and negative numbers and how numbers can cancel each other to make zero.

🚀 What Comes Next

Next, students will apply zero pairs to subtract integers and solve multi-step integer expressions.