Addition and Subtraction of Negative numbers

Sample Addition and Subtraction of Negative numbers questions

A few of the 30 questions, from easier to harder. Choose your exam board and tier to practise them, with every answer marked.

1. Question 12 marksGrade 1-2
   The temperature at midnight was $-8°C$. By morning it had risen by $11°C$. Work out the temperature in the morning.
   Show the worked solution

   $-8 + 11 = 3$

What are the common mistakes in Addition and Subtraction of Negative numbers?

When a pupil makes one of these on Revision Workshop, the marking engine names the mistake and explains it, instead of just marking the answer wrong.

• Mishandles the sign when adding a negative number

  Subtracted (-19) instead of adding it - treated the sign of (-19) incorrectly

• Mishandles the sign when subtracting a negative number

  Added (-14) instead of subtracting it - treated the sign of (-14) incorrectly

• Keeps the sign of the first number when combining two directed numbers instead of correctly recomputing the sign of the result

  Subtracts 14 from 27 correctly to get 13 but wrongly keeps the negative sign from the starting -14, giving -13 instead of 13.

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How many Addition and Subtraction of Negative numbers practice questions are there?

There are 30 self-marking GCSE and IGCSE Maths questions on Addition and Subtraction of Negative numbers, written for AQA, Pearson, OCR, Pearson International GCSE Maths A (4MA1), Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580), Cambridge IGCSE (9-1) Mathematics (0980) across Foundation and Higher and Core and Extended tier. Each one is marked instantly and has a full worked solution.

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