Math Monday - Negative Numbers

Negative numbers are numbers with both negative and positive signs. They are used in math to find the distance or amount of things. However, it is usually about distance. Like if the word problem said," The temperature in the morning is 68 degrees and the temperature in the afternoon is 89 degrees. What is the degree in between?" As you can see the temperature rise, so the problem written out is negative 68 + positive 89. Negative plus a positive you subtract. 89-68 the temperature in between is 21. The temperature change is 21.
     Negative numbers are used in real life too. It is like the situation I stated above about temperature. However, negatives numbers can be used in many more situations. The use of negative numbers are to find the distance, time, temperature, or anything in between.