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