Amy Pineda

Diana Moncada
Jocelyn Bustamante
William Walton
Math Journal week 10
The product of two integers are positive when both integers are positive or when both integers
are negative. Looking at the problem below, we know that (-6 + 6) will equal 0 and anything
multiplied by zero will always equal zero. Then we used the distributive property
Example 1:
-4 (-6 + 6) = 0

-4 (-6 + 6)

-4 (0) = 0
Example 2:
Remove 4 groups of 6 cold chips. -4(-6)

+ + + + + +

-- -- -+ + + + + +

-- -- -+ + + + + +

-- -- -+ + + + + +

-- -- --4(-6) = 24
Using the analogy of cold chips and hot chips, as you can see I started with 4 groups of 6 zero
pairs. The problem above asked me to remove 4 groups of 6 cold chips (-). I circled 4 groups of

cold chips and removed them. I was then left with 24 hot chips (+). My final answer to this
problem is +24.