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Calculating · typical for Grade 6
Negative numbers – worksheets to print
Compare whole numbers and calculate with them – also across zero.
- Choose the number of tasks and the difficulty yourself
- With an answer sheet and, if you like, a QR code to the answers
- At three levels (★ to ★★★) and as group A and B
- As a single worksheet or as a task on a mixed worksheet
Negative numbers: explained simply
Negative numbers are below zero. On a number line, they lie to the left of zero.
How to work it out
- Further right means greater: −2 is greater than −7.
- Adding a positive number moves right; subtracting it moves left. Adding a negative number acts like subtracting; subtracting a negative acts like adding.
An example, step by step
−3 + 5
- Start at −3 on the number line.
- Move 5 steps right: first 3 steps to 0, then 2 more.
- You reach 2. So −3 + 5 = 2.
Understand other variations
Subtracting a negative number
5 − (−4) = 5 + 4 = 9. In contrast, 5 + (−4) = 5 − 4 = 1.
Multiplication and division
Matching signs give a positive answer; different signs give a negative answer: (−3) · (−4) = 12 and (−12) : 3 = −4. This sign rule applies to multiplication and division.
Your turn
Which is greater: −8 or −3? Also calculate −8 + 3.
Show the answer and method
−3 is greater because it lies further right. −8 + 3 = −5.
Ready-made worksheets: Negative numbers
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Grade 6 · SingleNegative numbersPlus and minus across zero, −20 to 20
Grade 6 · SingleNegative numbers with brackets5 − (−4), −3 + (−6)
Grade 6 · SingleNegative numbers times & divided by−4 · 3, −24 : (−6), from the times tables
Grade 6 · MixedWeekly plan grade 6Fractions, decimals, negative numbers, angles