Year 4 Negative Numbers Maths Challenge

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 4 Negative Numbers Maths Challenge is designed to check pupils’ understanding of adding counting back and forth through zero on a number line. Pupils will use their knowledge of negative numbers to solve the clues and work out where Beth and Jim finish on the number line.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Number – number and place value

Mathematics Year 4: (4N5) Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers

Mathematics Year 4: (4N6) Solve number and practical problems that involve 4N1 – 4N5 and with increasingly large positive numbers