Subtracting with negative numbers Example What is 2 2? To subtract 2 from -2, start at -2 on a number line, and count to the left when subtracting positive numbers.

Learn how to multiply and divide positive and negative numbers and use the sign rules to work out the sign of the answer with BBC Bitesize Maths. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

To our mathematical predecessors, it wasn’t even clear negative numbers were numbers at all—they do not, after all, represent quantities in exactly the same way as positive numbers do!

Learn how to highlight cells with negative values in Excel. Make negative numbers stand out in Red using Conditional or Custom Formatting.