Counting numbers less than zero

The desk was just long enough

To develop our understanding of negative numbers we have been using our Numicon resources so we can clearly see how a positive and negative number line looks.

When some of us started working on large negative numbers we got creative with some post it notes. One of the main points we understood was that on a large negative number line it is important that the space between -90 to -100 is the same as the space between -120 to -130.

We made equal space between numbers by holding our arms out