Teach positive and negative integers through engaging robot programming contexts with this comprehensive and editable 26-slide teacher presentation, designed to explicitly teach how integers represent direction and distance on horizontal and vertical number lines.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, this teacher slide deck provides a scaffolded pathway from explicit teacher modelling to guided exploration and supported application. Students investigate how positive and negative integers represent movement, learn to track sequential changes from zero, and apply their understanding through engaging robot programming scenarios involving movement, decoding and debugging.

These teacher slides can be used independently. Note: Where the teacher slides reference printable independent activities, these are available in the full lesson bundle.

Through modelled examples, collaborative discussion and structured learning experiences, students represent movements on horizontal and vertical number lines, follow and interpret robot movement commands, determine final positions, identify errors in movement sequences, and explain their mathematical reasoning using appropriate mathematical language.

What's included in this teacher slide deck?

• 26 editable PowerPoint slides following the I Do, We Do, You Do lesson structure
• Clear learning intentions and success criteria focused on interpreting direction and distance using positive and negative integers
• Explicit teaching and modelled examples demonstrating how to track robot movements step-by-step from zero
• Guided practice using horizontal and vertical number lines to represent and interpret movement
• Interactive robot programming, decoding and debugging tasks that develop conceptual understanding
• Built-in check-in questions to monitor understanding throughout the lesson
• Opportunities for students to explain and justify their mathematical reasoning using mathematical language and visual models

Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this editable teacher slide deck develops students' understanding of positive and negative integers through engaging robot programming contexts. Students build confidence interpreting direction, tracking movement, determining final positions and applying integer concepts through purposeful, problem-solving tasks.

Format: PowerPoint

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)