recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• extending the number line in the negative direction to locate and represent integers, recognising the difference in location between (-\(2\)) and (+\(2\)) and their relationship to zero as -\(2< 0< 2\)
• using integers to represent quantities in financial contexts, including the concept of profit and loss for a planned event
• using horizontal and vertical number lines to represent and find solutions to everyday problems involving locating and ordering integers around zero; for example, elevators, above and below sea level; distinguishing a location by referencing to the \(4\) quadrants of the Cartesian plane