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Negative numbers are shown with a minus sign directly before the number. For instance -10. Negative numbers are used for measuring temperature and also to denote a loss, such as a debt. On negative number lines, the sequence of numbers goes the opposite way to that on positive number lines. For example, in this sequence: -5, -6, -7, -8... etc.
See how much you know about negative, or minus, numbers by playing this quiz.
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Negative numbers are the opposite of positive numbers therefore -1 is larger than all the other negative numbers
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Remember, the higher the negative number the lower its value
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Negative numbers go down in the same sequence that positive numbers go up in
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The symbol < means less than. The smaller part of the symbol is next to the smallest number
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The symbol > means greater than. The larger part of the symbol is next to the largest number
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This sequence is going down by 1 each time
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-5 - 2= -7
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-8 + 3 = -5
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One way to work this out is to split the 8 into 4 and 4 like this:
4 - 4 = 0 0 - 4 - = -4 |
-3 + 12 is the same as 12 - 3
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