This resource is designed to help students develop a strong understanding of positive and negative integers and their real-world applications. The worksheets focus on identifying integers, representing real-world situations with integers, and understanding how integers relate to direction and financial contexts.

How to Complete:

1. Section 1: Students will determine whether given numbers are positive or negative.
2. Section 2: Students will write integers to represent real-world situations, such as bank balances, elevations, and movement.
3. Section 3: Students will select the number in a given set that is closest to zero.
4. Section 4: Students will answer questions about how integers can be used to describe directions, financial situations, and vertical movement.

Additional Tips:

1. Use a number line to help students visualise positive and negative values.
2. Provide real-world examples before beginning the worksheet to make the concept more relatable.
3. Encourage discussion about different scenarios where negative numbers are used, such as in bank accounts, temperatures, and depths.

Extension Ideas:

1. Create Your Own Scenario: Have students come up with their own real-world situations that involve negative integers.
2. Integer Comparisons: Ask students to compare two integers and explain which is larger and why.
3. Real-World Research: Encourage students to find and share examples of negative integers in news articles, sports statistics, or geography.

This resource is included in the Year 6 Maths Unit: Integers.