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Year 5 · Maths

Interpret Negative Numbers

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Focus on understanding negative numbers. Start with “Add and Subtract with Negative Numbers”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Year 5 learners practise understanding negative numbers.

The activities include Add and Subtract with Negative Numbers, Add Using Negative Numbers, Create a Number Sequence From a Rule, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet, teaching-practice. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Add and Subtract with Negative Numbers
  • Add Using Negative Numbers
  • Create a Number Sequence From a Rule
  • Find Numbers that are Between Two Negative Numbers
  • Interpret Negative Numbers in Context
  • Order Negative Numbers
  • Practise Adding and Subtracting with Negative Numbers
  • Practise Using Negative Numbers to Work out Temperatures
  • Solve Problems Involving Negative Numbers
  • Subtract Using Negative Numbers
  • Understand Temperature Change Using Negative Numbers

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