KS2: Negative Numbers (Lesson 2)

This is lesson 2 of a six lesson unit of work for teaching all negative numbers objectives in Year 4, 5 and 6. In this resource pack you will find: Lesson plans (including for your TA), differentiated worksheets/activities/games (LA, MA and HA plus a challenge activity for deeper understanding/mastery), answer sheets for all activities and flipcharts for whole class teaching (in ActivInspire, PowerPoint and PDF format). This pack will save you hours and hours of planning, resourcing, differentiating, finding challenging activities and generating flipcharts all for an amazing price. In addition, resources are uploaded in both PDF and Word format so that they can be edited to suit your needs. The children will love the fun characters, games and interesting activities

Lesson 2 starts with a fun game of number line tennis and then has the children counting forwards and backwards along a number line crossing zero. The challenge activity: counting across a number line, but with larger numbers.

Objectives Covered:

Count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers

Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0

Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across

The complete six lesson pack (including a bonus mini-assessment) is also available at a discounted price (£7.99). Check out my shop (by clicking on my username) to find this great resource + lots more!