How about using a colourful double ganit mala to help your students understand integers better? And an open number line that can be easily drawn? Visualizations can help students with comparing numbers and understanding why one number is less than or greater than another.

1. Comparing Integers
on double ganitmala
and open number line

2. 2 positive integers
3 and 9

11. Positive integer and Zero
5 and 0

16. 2 Negative integers
-3 and -9

27. Negative integer and Zero
-6 and 0

32. Positive and Negative integers
-2 and 8

39. Positive and Negative integers
6 and -10

47. Idea thanks to Jodo Gyan
Model from Shikshamitra
Execution by Swati Sircar
Shot at APU by Rajkishore Patnaik of ETD team