Integers: Subtracting Negative Numbers – MATH

Understand subtraction of rational numbers as adding the additive inverse, p - q = p + (-q). Based on CommonCore CC Standard 7.NS.A.1.C 7.NA.A.1-d.

Subtracting a negative is the same as:

subtracting the opposite. multiplying the opposite. adding the opposite. subtracting a positive.
Subtract.

6 -12 12 -6
Subtract.

8 12 -12 -20
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