4.1  Integers and Operations of Addition and Subtraction

 

Symbol     "-"  means Subtract, Opposite, Negative

 

**our text uses a raised negative as -4 or -a to mean opposite or negative)

 

Negative Numbers  -  useful  - debt, temperature, "sea-level"

 

Integers   {...-3, -2, -1,0,1,2,3,...}

Positive Integers                                 NonPositive Integers

 

Negative Integers                                NonNegative Integers

 

-3  where the -  means "the opposite of"        CSMP   uses  ^ above the number

 

Example

 

If x = -4, or  x =3, find  -x. 

 

Integer Addition Models

 

Chip Model                   Black +, Red -   or sometimes White is -               

          4 + 7          -8  +  -4                   -5 +3

 

 

 

Charged Field Model             +  and -    ** Zero is ±

          -5 + 7                    -6 + -8         

 

 

 

Patterns     Read on own in text pg. 173

 

Number-Line Model    Car faces right and + is forward, - is backward

 

CSMP        Do some on transparencies

 

 

Absolute Value              "distance to zero"

 

Examples

|5|                |-2|               |4 - 7|        -3 + |6 + -8|                -|-2|              -|5|

 

 

 

Properties of Integer Addition

 

Closure on Integers, Commutative, Associative, Identity

 

Uniqueness of Additive Inverse

 

For every integer, a, there is a unique number -a such that

          a + -a = 0 = -a + a

 

Examples:  Find Additive Inverse

7        -3                 - (4 + x)                 m -  -2                             -5 + -x

 

 

Integer Subtraction

 

*** Subtraction is CLOSED on the set of integers ***

 

Chip Model          "Take away" red or black chips.  Sometimes need to put in more "red/black" zero sets to have enough to subtract

          6 - 8                      -4 - 5                     6 - -3 

 

 

 

 

Charged Field Model

          "take away" +'s or -s.   Again may need to put in zeros as ±                                            

          5 - 2                      4 - -6            3 - -6                   3 -  6

 

Number Line Model      Subtraction   "turn car left", but forward and

backward are still + and -

          6 - 4            3 - 5            2 - -4            -5 - 3            -5 - -1

 

Definition of Subtraction                  

          For all integers a and  b,  a - b = n, a unique number,

 such that  b + n = a

 

Examples:  Use the definition of subtraction to find:

 

4 - 7                                                   -3 - -5                   

 

 

 

Property     For all integers a - b = a + -b            

          This is the traditional method use for subtracting integers

 

 

3 - 8 + 4                                   5 - (6 - 2)

 

 

 

7 - (10 - 3x)

 

 

 

#7b, c, e

 

 

 

#14 b, d

 

 

 

#28 Black

 

 

Assignment:  4.1  pg 180;  1, 2a, 3r, 4r, 5, 7r, 9, 11, 12, 13r, 14r, 15, 17, 18, *19, 23r, 25r, 26a,b, 28r, 30r, 31r