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100s of Maths Questions on Negative Numbers
A teacher-ready set of negative numbers questions for Years 5-10. Covers the number line, four operations with integers, and real-world contexts like temperature, altitude and money, with worked answers included.
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What’s Included in the Negative Numbers Question Bank?
🔥Progressive Difficulty Levels
Questions are sequenced from recognising negatives on a number line, through adding and subtracting integers, into multiplying and dividing with negative values. Each level builds on the last so students consolidate one skill before the next is introduced.
🌍 Targeted Practice
Practice is grouped by skill so you can set work on one operation at a time: ordering integers, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, and substituting into expressions. Word problems use familiar contexts like temperature change, bank balances, sea level and sports scores.
💡Conceptual Understanding
The bank pairs procedural fluency with the reasoning behind the rules — why subtracting a negative is the same as adding, why two negatives multiply to a positive, and how to read an integer on a coordinate plane.
Practice Questions
Practice Questions
Hundreds of items per skill, with short fluency drills for warm-ups and longer multi-step problems for class work or homework. Every question includes the answer so marking is fast.
Engaging Exercises
Engaging Exercises
Visual prompts (number lines, thermometers, gain/loss diagrams) sit alongside abstract calculations so students who think in pictures and students who think in symbols both have a way in.
Differentiated Questions
Differentiated Questions
Each strand includes enabling questions that scaffold the basics and extending questions that push toward algebraic substitution, integer exponents and signed coordinates — useful for mixed-ability classes.
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What is covered in the negative numbers question bank?
Students locate positive and negative numbers on a horizontal and vertical number line, compare integers, and order sets that mix positives, negatives and zero. Questions cover absolute value, distance between two integers, and reading scales such as temperature, altitude and depth. This is the foundation that makes the operations work later make sense.
A full set of items for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers, including questions where students must work out the sign of the answer before computing it. Mixed-operation problems and BIDMAS questions with negatives are included so students practise applying the rules in less obvious places, such as evaluating expressions and substituting negatives into formulas.
Word problems set in everyday and cross-curricular contexts: temperature differences in weather data, profit and loss in money problems, gains and losses in sport, sea-level and altitude in geography, and electrical charge in science. Students decide which operation models the situation, set up the calculation, and interpret a negative answer in context.
Number Line, Ordering and Comparing Integers
Operations with Positive and Negative Numbers
Real-World Problems with Negative Numbers
Explore the full range of questions on negative numbers and lift student confidence with signed numbers.