This interactive PowerPoint resource is designed to help students recognise and work with integers in real-life contexts by simulating the movement of an elevator across various floors in a building. With 10 floors above ground and 10 basement levels, students must determine the correct number of floors to move up or down, reinforcing their understanding of positive and negative integers. The activity also builds essential numeracy skills, especially in financial contexts and spatial reasoning, as students practise locating integers and representing them on a number line.

How to Complete

1. Open the interactive PowerPoint and navigate through the slides.
2. On each slide, students are presented with a starting floor and a target floor.
3. Students must calculate the number of floors to move up or down by using integers (positive for up and negative for down).
4. After making a selection, they can check their answer by clicking a designated button or reviewing the correct answer on the next slide.

Additional Tips

1. Before starting the activity, introduce students to the concept of integers, including positive and negative numbers.
2. Encourage students to visualise the elevator’s movement by drawing a simple number line representing the floors.
3. Discuss how negative numbers are used in everyday life, such as temperatures, bank balances, and basement levels.
4. Allow students to work in pairs or small groups to discuss their thinking and reasoning.

Extension Ideas

1. Ask students to create their own scenarios involving integer operations, such as temperature changes or profit and loss calculations.
2. Incorporate Cartesian plane activities by representing the floors and movement as coordinates (starting floor as the x-axis and movement as the y-axis).

Challenge students to design a new building with different levels and create problems for their peers to solve.