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Build a strong understanding of integers with this complete teaching bundle, designed to take students from their first exploration of numbers below zero to confidently locating, representing, comparing and ordering integers on a number line. Combining a comprehensive lesson plan, ready-to-teach teacher slides and differentiated student activities, this curriculum-aligned resource brings explicit instruction, visual models and purposeful practice together in one cohesive sequence.

Structured around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, the bundle supports a gradual progression from teacher demonstration to guided exploration and independent application. Students develop an understanding of how the number system extends beyond zero, explore the relationship between positive and negative numbers, and use number lines to reason about the position and value of integers.

Across modelled examples, class discussion and carefully sequenced mathematics tasks, students work with integers in both mathematical and real-world situations, including financial contexts. They extend number lines into negative values, locate and represent integers, compare and order positive and negative numbers, and explain their thinking using appropriate mathematical language.

What's included in this teaching bundle?

Lesson Plan (PDF)

• Clear learning intention and success criteria focused on recognising, locating and representing integers
• Explicit instruction introducing positive and negative numbers and their relationship to zero
• Modelled and guided learning using number lines as a visual representation
• Formative exit ticket to assess students' understanding and inform next-step teaching

Teacher Slides (PowerPoint)

• Comprehensive, ready-to-teach presentation introducing integers and number lines
• Explicit teaching of positive integers, negative integers and zero
• Visual models showing how number lines extend beyond zero into negative values
• Worked examples demonstrating how to locate, represent, compare and order integers
• Embedded checks for understanding throughout the teaching sequence
• Structured progression from teacher modelling to supported student application

Differentiated Student Activities (PDF)

• Three differentiated independent activity worksheets providing increasing levels of challenge
• Targeted tasks for locating and representing positive and negative integers on number lines
• Practice comparing and ordering integers based on their position and value
• Answer sheets for all differentiated activities to support efficient marking and feedback

This complete teaching bundle builds the conceptual understanding needed to interpret integers, visualise their position on a number line and reason confidently about their relative value. Ideal for upper primary classrooms, the sequence provides a clear, scaffolded and curriculum-aligned approach to introducing and consolidating integers through explicit teaching and meaningful application.

Formats: PowerPoint and PDF

Aligned to Australian Curriculum: Recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane (AC9M6N01)

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