Number Archives - MathedUp! https://www.mathedup.co.uk/category/number/ FOR YOUR MATHS TEACHING AND LEARNING NEEDS Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:12:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 50777652 Minus or Negative? https://www.mathedup.co.uk/minus-or-negative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minus-or-negative https://www.mathedup.co.uk/minus-or-negative/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:50:12 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=9814 There are a lot of misconceptions around negative numbers (see this post) and I sometimes wonder if this is down to confusion caused by the language we use when describing a number that is below zero. I know some maths teachers interchange between calling something negative or minus depending on the situation or the mood they are in. Outside […]

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