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Working with Directed Numbers

Working with Directed Numbers

These tasks will support your students' understanding of positive and negative numbers.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Learning about Probability through problem solving

Introducing Complex Numbers

Introducing Complex Numbers

These resources are designed to introduce students to complex numbers in an exploratory way.

Working with Mental Images

Working with Mental Images

Challenge your students to develop their visualisation skills by working on these tasks

From Area Into Integration

From Area Into Integration

This collection offers resources for teaching perimeter, area, volume, and finally integration.

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Working with Directed Numbers

This set of tasks is intended to provide an introduction to operations with positive and negative numbers. The article offers a variety of models that could be used with students to introduce them to the concepts of calculating with directed numbers, and the resources and games can be used in the classroom to develop students' understanding and fluency.

Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers

Stage: 2, 3 and 4

How can we help students make sense of addition and subtraction of negative numbers?

Strange Bank Account live

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Imagine a very strange bank account where you are only allowed to do two things...

Up, Down, Flying Around

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Play this game to learn about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers

Playing Connect Three

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?

Weights live

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?