Curriculum placement
Grade 7. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Adding and subtracting signed numbers
Add and subtract signed rational numbers
Problem types
- Add signed integers
- Add and subtract signed fractions
- Add five to seven signed changes
Builds on
- Positive and negative numbers
- Adding and subtracting unlike fractions
- Adding and subtracting whole numbers · Earlier idea
Adding and subtracting large numbers extends to adding and subtracting signed numbers, where the sign decides whether to add or subtract the sizes.
Leads to
Related skills
- Ordering numbers and absolute value · Shared foundations
- Coordinates in four quadrants · Shared foundations
- Fraction operations on a line plot · Shared foundations
- Inequalities on a number line · Shared foundations
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