The Power of Place Value · Number and Operations

Negative Numbers in Context

Interpreting negative numbers in real world scenarios and calculating intervals across zero.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we represent values that are less than nothing in the physical world?
  2. 2What happens to the magnitude of a negative number as we move further left on a number line?
  3. 3Why does the distance between -5 and 5 require two different mathematical steps to calculate?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS2: Mathematics - Number and Place Value
Year: Year 5
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: The Power of Place Value
Period: Number and Operations

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