Understanding Negative Sums

Understanding Negative Sums

Assessment

Interactive Video

Mathematics

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Aiden Montgomery

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The video tutorial explains how to find the sum of negative numbers by converting addition of negatives into subtraction of positives. It uses a number line to visualize the process and demonstrates that the sum of negative numbers is equivalent to the negative of the sum of their positive counterparts. The tutorial concludes with a step-by-step calculation, showing that the sum of negative 15, negative 46, and negative 29 is negative 90.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the equivalent operation of adding a negative number?

Dividing by a positive number

Multiplying by a negative number

Subtracting a positive number

Adding a positive number

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

On a number line, moving left represents which mathematical operation?

Addition

Subtraction

Division

Multiplication

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can the sum of negative numbers be represented using positive numbers?

As the product of their absolute values

As the negative of the sum of their positive counterparts

As the division of their positive counterparts

As the sum of their absolute values

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the result of 15 + 46 + 29?

95

85

90

80

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the final result of the sum of negative 15, negative 46, and negative 29?

-95

-80

-90

-85