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Positives and Negatives

Positives and Negatives

Learn all about positive and negative numbers!

Seeing Mathematically

Seeing Mathematically

Creating mental images is a powerful way to solve maths problems.

All about Area and Perimeter

All about Area and Perimeter

Working on these problems will offer you insights into how areas and perimeters are related.

Why Work Systematically?

Why Work Systematically?

Systematic approaches will offer the most efficient routes to the solutions of these tasks.

Reasoning with Data

Reasoning with Data

These resources are designed to get you thinking about data handling.

Reasoning Geometrically

Reasoning Geometrically

These resources are designed to get you thinking about geometrical reasoning.

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Positives and Negatives

We have put together this collection of problems and games to help you to understand positive and negative numbers. Play the games in Up, Down, Flying Around, read the article, and then apply your understanding to investigate the different problems that use negative numbers.

Up, Down, Flying Around

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

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

Making Sense of Positives and Negatives

Stage: 3

This article suggests some ways of making sense of calculations involving positive and 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...

Strange Bank Account (part 2) live

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Investigate different ways of making £5 at Charlie's bank.

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?