{"id":2964,"date":"2018-02-28T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:15:41","slug":"outdoor-indoor-maths-negative-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor\/Indoor Maths &#8211; Negative Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class 2 braved the elements today, albeit very briefly, before returning to the warmth of the hall for our \u2018outdoor\u2019 maths.\u00a0 We were applying our problem solving skills to act out adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.\u00a0 We used the <em><strong>Start-Direction-How he walks<\/strong><\/em> strategy to move ourselves along the number line to find our answer.\u00a0 We now know that when the two signs in the middle of a calculation are the same the result is positive e.g. 6 -( &#8211; 4) = 10.\u00a0 When the two signs in the middle of a calculation are different, the result is negative e.g. -4 + ( -2) = -6. We are problem solvers!<\/p>\n<p>#Successful Learners<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class 2 braved the elements today, albeit very briefly, before returning to the warmth of the hall for our \u2018outdoor\u2019 maths.\u00a0 We were applying our problem solving skills to act out adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.\u00a0 We used the Start-Direction-How he walks strategy to move ourselves along the number line to find our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outdoor\/Indoor Maths &#8211; Negative Numbers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}