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📐 Mathematics 11 minLesson 2 of 50
Negative numbers
Add, subtract and order numbers either side of zero without slipping up.
What you will learn
- Adding a negative moves you left along the number line.
- Subtracting a negative is the same as adding, because two minuses cancel.
- Further left means smaller: −8 is less than −3.
Adding and subtracting negative numbers | Pre-Algebra | Khan Academy
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Question 1 of 2Work out 5 − (−3).
