Name: What Is a Negative Number?
Uploaded: 2023-01-16T07:52:35.764Z
Channel: House of Math
Description: Negative numbers are the opposite of positive numbers. You write a minus sign in front of negative numbers. Watch this video to learn more.

As far back as around 200 BCE in China, symbols representing negative numbers were used to keep track of money spent or borrowed. Negative numbers have been useful for over 2200 years

Negative numbers are the opposite of positive numbers. You write a minus sign in front of negative numbers. Watch this video to learn more.

The symbol -
Used for subtraction or as a sign in a negative number.

A number on the opposite side of 0 on the number line, with the same distance to 0. For example, 3 is the opposite number of -3.

A line with numbers going on forever in both directions from 0.

Mathagon

Number Line

The Minus Sign

Negative Numbers

What Is a Negative Number?

Learn what negative numbers are, how to place them on the number line, and how the minus sign is used to indicate that you’re dealing with a negative number.