Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to select and calculate the difference between pairs of temperatures recorded using positive and negative numbers working with addition and subtraction number skills to find the temperature ranges.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate the difference between temperatures recorded using positive and negative numbers to show the weather in different countries.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explore the properties of different numbers including counting in powers of ten, recording the place value of negative numbers and representing numbers using Roman Numerals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.