Build understanding of integers and number lines with this focused lesson sequence, designed to develop students' conceptual understanding through explicit teaching, visual models and guided practice. Students explore how number lines extend into negative numbers, learn to locate and represent integers, and develop an understanding of the relationship between positive and negative numbers in relation to zero.

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Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, this lesson sequence guides students from explicit instruction to supported practice and independent application. Through modelled examples, collaborative discussion and structured mathematics tasks, students investigate integers in authentic contexts, represent and compare numbers on a number line, and explain their mathematical reasoning.

What's included in this teacher resource?

• Comprehensive lesson sequence focused on understanding integers and number lines
• Clear learning intention and success criteria centred on recognising, locating and representing integers
• Explicit instruction and modelled examples using number lines
• Guided practice tasks supporting students to place and label integers on a number line
• Opportunities for students to explain and justify their reasoning using number lines
• Built-in check-ins for learning to monitor understanding throughout the lesson
• A formative exit ticket to assess understanding of integer placement, comparison and relationships to zero

Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this lesson sequence develops students' conceptual understanding of integers while building confidence representing, comparing and reasoning with positive and negative numbers using visual models and mathematical language.

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Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: 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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