Arithmetic Grade Five

Lesson Thirty-seven: Subtracting Negative Numbers


When we subtract from a number which is already negative we end up with an answer which is even further from zero than the original number:


	-100 - 100 = -200

This is also true when adding a negative number to a negative number:

	-100 + -100 = -200

Subtracting a positive or adding a negative produces an answer which is smaller than the number at the front of the problem.

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