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Adding Positive and Negative Numbers

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By Khalla Hussain

Class 5 B

Adding positive and Negative numbers


How to add positive numbers
• Adding positive numbers, such as 2 + 2, is easy.
• When we add a negative number to a positive number, or two negative numbers,
that can sometimes seem tricky. However, there are some simple rules to follow
and we introduce them here.

1. Rule 1: Adding positive numbers to positive numbers—it’s just normal


addition.
• For example: this is what you have learned all along. 3 + 2 are two positive
numbers. You can calculate these problems the way you always have: 3 + 2 = 5.
• Also 6+3=9
This is where it gets a little harder. Pay close attention to where the negative
signs are placed in the problem.

Rule 2: Adding positive numbers to negative numbers—count forward


the amount you’re adding.
• For example: -6 + 3. This would reading “negative six plus three”. The
best way to think about this problem is to use a number line that extends
to the negative numbers.
• You’re starting with the negative number -6.
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Rule 3: Adding negative numbers to positive numbers—count backwards, as if
you were subtracting.
Now, let’s look at the reverse equation. When you are adding a negative number
to a positive number you are effectively subtracting the second number from the
first.
For example, take 4 + (-2). How does that look on the numbers line?
You start at 4.
Rule 4: Adding negative numbers to negative numbers— treat the problem like subtraction
(counting backwards).
When you are adding a negative number to a negative number, it becomes subtraction, where you start
from a negative point on the numbers line and move left.
For example, -3 + (-2). This reads “negative three plus negative 2”. You need to ignore the plus sign and
recognize that the second negative means you are subtracting that number.
We’re starting at -3.

Then we subtract 2.

The answer is -5. -3 + (-2) = -5.


A negative number is a number that indicates an opposite. For example:
If a positive number is distance up, then a negative number is distance down.
If a positive number is distance to the right, then a negative number is distance to the
left.
If a positive number is a deposit to a bank account, then a negative number is a
withdrawal from that bank account.
If a positive number is a quantity of minutes in the future, then a negative number is a
quantity of minutes in the past.
If a positive number means addition, then a negative number means subtraction.a
The counting numbers (1, 2, 3, and so on) are all positive numbers. The positive
numbers, negative numbers, and the number zero, taken together, are called "signed
numbers" or integers.
The number zero is neither positive nor negative. Zero is its own opposite; so +0 =
−0. That is, zero steps to the right is the same as zero steps to the left.
A negative number is always less than zero.
A negative number is written by putting a minus sign, "−", in front of a positive
number. For example, 3 is a positive number, but −3 is a negative number. It is read
"negative three" or "minus three"; it means the opposite of 3.
Negative numbers are left of zero on a number line. A number and its opposite are
always the same distance from zero. The negative number −3 is just as far to the left
of zero as 3 is to the right of zero:
Sometimes, for emphasis, we write the pair of opposite numbers as −3 and
+3.
A number and its opposite always add to zero. So the sum of −3 and +3 is
0. We can write this either as −3 + 3 = 0 or as 3 + (− 3) = 0. In addition, a
number and its opposite are said to "cancel each other out".
The set of negative real numbers is sometimes written as . [1]
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