Do you know what are negative numbers? Have you seen one? Negative numbers are numbers that are less than positive numbers. When you see a negative number, you will see a little dash on the side of the number. What that means is that the number is negative because it has the negative sign. You use negative numbers all the time when you are doing math. You will see negative numbers all the time in math. You will also see them in real life like in money or stocks.
Where do you see these negative numbers in real life? You usually see them when you owe someone money. Like if you owe the library money, the give you a paper the says how much money you owe and it has a number like this, -3.55. That negative means that you owe the library that much money. You also see them in stocks. When you see the news, you look at the stock market and see what is going on. When the stock is down, you will see a percentage that is negative like this, -0.66%. That means that the stock has lost .66 percent of its stock.
Where do you see these negative numbers in real life? You usually see them when you owe someone money. Like if you owe the library money, the give you a paper the says how much money you owe and it has a number like this, -3.55. That negative means that you owe the library that much money. You also see them in stocks. When you see the news, you look at the stock market and see what is going on. When the stock is down, you will see a percentage that is negative like this, -0.66%. That means that the stock has lost .66 percent of its stock.
If we didn't have any negative numbers, then we wouldn't know how
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