Pre-instructional+Activities


 * Pre-instructional Activities **

__** Motivation **__


 * Attention **
 * In order to gain learner attention, the instructor will participate in an error analysis activity. The instructor will ask a volunteer to come to the board and correct the integer problems with signs, and state why the problem is incorrect. Finally, the instructor will ask all of the other learners if they would do it differently.


 * Relevance **
 * The instructor will then ask how many learners have noticed errors during classroom instruction for signed numbers.


 * The instructor will then have an open discussion for learners to share situations when students could not perform indicated operations on signed numbers and be asked the problem that it causes during the year throughout classroom instruction.


 * Confidence **
 * The instructor will inform the class that they will be shown a very simple strategy for re-teaching how to become more confident performing a variety of operations with signed integers.


 * Satisfaction **
 * The instructor will demonstrate to the learners that this new way of teaching students how to obtain and retain indicated operations on signed integers will eliminate common students errors for the this particular task and increase student aptitude in all math classes and decrease teacher frustration. The learners will use this method to teach the content effectively by telling them to place one rule for any operation next to a particular math problem and then telling the learners to match it up with the correct type of example.