6th Class are considering negative numbers in Maths and the question was asked, “How can there be a number less than zero, if zero is equal to nothing?” Is there a quantity less than zero? How can we have less than nothing at all! What a conundrum to debate! We turned to real life problems to answer the question, including looking at negative temperatures and landforms beneath sea level. There is of course an infinite number of integers ‘going left’ on the number line and 6T have been investigating them all week. We will finish up today with our weekly assessment and online Kahoot quiz. It is fascinating listening to the children discuss their Mathematical understanding. Justifying their answers and reasoning with each other is an important part of their learning and is rightly included in the NSW Maths Curriculum under the strand name ‘Working Mathematically’.
Allison Tomicki
Teacher
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