Primary maths: Negative numbers

Activities, lesson ideas and games to help you encourage positive attitudes when learning about negative numbers

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Primary Children Smiling & Answering Questions To Promote Positive Messages About Negative Numbers

Promote positivity when working with negative numbers with help from these innovative resources

To help you to introduce and explore negative numbers with your primary maths pupils, we’ve selected some of the very best negative number resources, with everything from lesson presentations, worksheets, interactive problem solving tasks and fun games. So, number lines at the ready…

Lessons and workpacks

KS2: Negative Numbers (Six Lesson Unit of Work + BONUS RESOURCES)
Andrew Long

KS2: Negative Numbers (Six Lesson Unit of Work + BONUS RESOURCES)

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This is 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 ...
Negative Numbers 1
Outstanding_Resources

Negative Numbers 1

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This is first lesson looking at Negative numbers. It includes using the four different operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) and lots of different real-life contexts. This lesson is ready to go, with no prep required. It is also great for home learning. 19 slide presentation + lots of res...
Negative Numbers - Number Line, Ordering and Differences.
MissBsResources

Negative Numbers - Number Line, Ordering and Differences.

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(All answers are provided) I've designed this resource to allow students to explore negative numbers from the basics. It begins with a brief look at where negative numbers are used in real life. This then leads to looking at the number line and finding missing numbers and rules. Students ...
Negative Numbers KS2
Magictrickster

Negative Numbers KS2

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A bright and stimulating Powerpoint to explain Negative Numbers. This powerpoint has 12 slides (Plus one title and one end slide). Designed for KS2. The topics in the powerpoint are: Negative Numbers Negative Numbers: A Number Line Putting Negative Numbers in the Correct Order Adding and Subtract...
Understanding Negative Numbers - Year 6
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Understanding Negative Numbers - Year 6

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Understanding Negative Numbers - Year 6 This Year 6 maths teaching resource includes a PowerPoint and differentiated worksheets for independent learning, to guide your class through the curriculum objectives of the Year 6 maths programme of study (Number - number and place value). In Understandi...

Problem solving

Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers
Helen-Teach

Negative Numbers Maths Murder Mystery With Answers

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A fun, engaging negative numbers maths murder mystery for students to solve. Students add, subtract, multiply and divide negative and positive numbers to solve the murder. Complete answers are provided for all questions. This resource is suitable for upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 pupils. The...
Adding Negatives Number Pyramids
elasticmaths

Adding Negatives Number Pyramids

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Differentiated worksheet completing negative number pyramids with answers. Red - Completing pyramids by adding. Amber - Completing pyramids by adding and subtracting. Green - Problem solving with pyramids. Like this resource? Try these bundles of Number Pyramids worksheets... [Number Pyramids Bun...

Games

Negative Numbers
FullShelf

Negative Numbers

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Activities (a game, puzzles worksheets and word problem cards) for differentiated negative numbers lessons at Upper Key Stage 2 (KS2). It was originally designed for Year 5 and Year 6 (Y5 / Y6) and equivalents but could work for able Year 4 too. Includes 3 fun Hidden Word / Spot the Mistake Puzzles ...
Negative numbers magic square
cronina

Negative numbers magic square

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key words: directed numbers. These are 4 magic squares that can be used to practise adding positive and negative numbers. The final square includes positive and negative decimals for use with the more able students. This is primarily aimed at KS3 but could be useful for KS2 or even KS4 revision
Head Start Negative Number Sequences
Head Start Maths

Head Start Negative Number Sequences

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Negative Number Sequences This activity is designed to practice: count backwards through 0 including negative numbers Description of Activity: Students roll the 10-sided dice twice (see printable resource link below). The first roll is the starting number, and the second roll is the step count back...
Negative Switch | Calculations Card Game
LittleStreams

Negative Switch | Calculations Card Game

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Adding and subtracting with negative numbers can be a challenging topic to make fun. This card game to exercise quick-fire, spontaneous positive and negative calculation of positive and negative numbers. As you turn each card over, add the value of the card to the collective total. If the card is a...
Negative Numbers 2 Powerpoint Game by Arithmetickx
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Negative Numbers 2 Powerpoint Game by Arithmetickx

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A fun, interactive PPT game to develop children's knowledge and understanding of negative numbers. This game is suitable for Year 5 and beyond. All Arithmetickx games incorporate 10 questions which increase in difficulty as the games progress. The games include problem solving and reasoning question...
Negative numbers: Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes
MissEHoney

Negative numbers: Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes

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Adding and subtracting negative numbers mazes. 8 mazes with full solutions are included, great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don't want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include positive subtract positive, negative subtract positive, negative add positive, negative add negati...