The Year 6 students continue to learn about integers during their Maths lesson. The focus was on extending their understanding of whole numbers beyond zero moving to the left (numbers with a value less than one) on the number line.

Learning about the negative numbers was certainly timely during winter in Stanthorpe. Students looked at comparative values of different integers and posed questions wondering if the same operations and strategies can be applied to negative numbers as positive numbers. Another wondering from the learners included: Can negative numbers be classified as prime or composite? We know that an effective learner asks themselves questions and to answer this one, we need to ask ourselves 'What features make a number prime or composite?'

Lots to explore in the land of Mathematics!