Understand and Learn the Rules of Positive and Negative Numbers 

I'm 14 and I still don't get this whole negative and positive thing, but thanks to this video now I do :)

Me: **Actually listens to the teacher and learns** Me, during exams: **Loses the brain cells that actually remembered the lesson**

why is it that i learn better from youtube videos like this one, than my teacher trying to explain this ???

I'm glad you understand positive and negative numbers- many, many students make mistakes in math because they confuse these rules. I wish you all the best in school!

Thank you! I'm glad the videos are helping you... all the best- John

This is the kind of teaching that I want. Straightforward and very easy to comprehend. I needed this for our tomorrow's exam, thank you!

multiplying and dividing are the easiest for me but adding and subtracting are difficult for me. BUT you made it so much easy for me ! thank you a million times! xo

Holy shiz! This guy teaches better than my math teacher😂

keep rocking math! I'm so happy my videos are helping you...

Lots of examples, clear instruction. Thanks

I'm 73 and am severely (and I mean SEVERELY) math challenged. Was very sick as a child and missed a lot of school so by 9th grade I was so lost the teacher sounded like he was speaking Greek to me. 😕 Thru the decades math became a very nasty 4-letter word to me, so the family joke is if you start taking math around me you're swearing at me. 🤐 Over time I've picked up some useful knowledge here and there and lately I've started watching videos like yours to help me fill in some of the missing pieces in my learning. It's truly helped a lot, but I have a very long way to go before I'll ever be comfortable around numbers. 😊 In your video, I was with you thru everything up to the last problem when you started speaking Greek. 🤔 I don't now, and may never understand how the answer was reached. It simply isn't logical to me, but that's been my biggest roadblock; to me, math isn't logical. But because of teachers like you it's been a lot easier for folks like me and I'm truly thankful for that. God bless.

Your welcome! Positive and Negative numbers are so important for math- many students is algebra make mistakes because they confuse the rules of "real numbers". Keep up the great work...I'm here to help!!

0:48 - Multiplying the same numbers 1:06 - Multiplying the same negative numbers 1:12 - Multiplying positive and negatives

Thank you very for explaining it very well and slowly. I have trouble with signs and try to understand them. I keep watching this video over and over till I get it in my brain.

l have taken classes, I have tried many things and just didn't get it. I prayed And found you. I understand things that I never could. Thank you so much for taking the time to help people like me. Its truly a blessing.

Omg god bless u, I finally get this

i don't get how any youtube video i watch is better than any math teacher ive ever had lol but thanks

When I actually learned positive & negative, (around 2 years ago) I had a bad teacher so I never bothered to learn bc if you didn't get the right answer, she'd say something along the lines of "Well why don't you know the answer. Everyone here does, haven't you been listening?" But I finally mustered up enough courage to try and relearn it. I'm proud of myself.

Your welcome!! keep working had you can master math... I'm here to help

oml you literally saved me. my teacher doesn’t know how to teach shii- literally she gives up problems and doesn’t even explain anything. you literally are the best

Thanks for the feedback- I'm happy the video was helpful

If math is taught correctly it can stop a lot of kids from doing crime. Also help them enter into a good college. This guy is pretty good.

12:17 am and I got a math exam tomorrow. Could not be more thankful for RU-vid

your welcome! happy to that you passed your exam- keep up the great work!

It's actually quite ironic how subtraction and addition are more complicated when it comes to integers. By the way, this is the quickest way of how to solve integers i've ever watched in this app. Thank you, and i like how straight to the point he is and his instructions are very easy to comprehend.

your welcome- best of luck with math!

Thank you SO much! You really made this clear and understandable. You've saved people from stressing and punching the wall over a topic for their test that they weren't able to comprehend until you saved the day! God bless you!

"Middle school math" 😅🤦 I'm 32 years old and struggle with this.

I like how you showed from each group, the division, subtraction, multiplication and addition, very helpful, thanx!!

Thanks A lot im currently in school for my GED and your tutorial helps a lot i been out of school a long time but u bring back alot to my memory thank u

In school:- + +=+ + -=- - +=- - -=+

In order to understand something I need to know WHY you do something and understand it fully otherwise I'm just learning random rules which I don't know how they work. Still don't understand this

After having to teach myself math all my life (and failing) I'm having to make up for it and take some classes quick so I can graduate at a normal level.... still can't wrap my brain around negative numbers completely

great! I'm happy I'm helping you learn math- keep up the great work!

i understood this better than my teacher XD. (or i wasnt just listening)

I have ADHD, so I tried speeding this up to 1.25 speed. It really helped me to focus because I find it easier to focus when its challenging, try it!

Thankyou so much!! My teacher has been teaching this for a year, yet i can never understand it, and now i get it!!

Thank you sooo much you cleared everything up for me I didnt get it and my math teacher would explain it to me so I really need help. THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH !!!!! :-)

JohnZimmerman: Thank you for all your time, work and help. It is greatly appreciated!

hi, the procedure is to turn subtraction problems into addition problems. so if you know how to add positive and negative numbers then you should understand. I would focus on adding positive and negative numbers first. Then when you do subtraction problems turn them into addition problems.

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Thank you! I can tell you will ace math! you have the motivation and drive that is 90% of success!!

Thanks so much for the help! I have a math test tomorrow with algebra with negative numbers and probability so this will help a lot. Thanks!

OMG This is AWESOME!!! I am in entry level college math and I have been looking for an easy, clear to cut way to see and understand the rules for integers and could not find them anywhere I had looked. I will definitely subscribe to tablet class.THANK YOU!!!!!

i have a precal quiz tomorrow and i’m still having trouble with adding negative numbers :((( wish me luck update: i got a 99!

I am from kerala your standard of teaching is good sir

Thank you!!! You help me a lot explaining my daughter the signs. She didn’t get me until you explained it really clear.

hello, well in this problem it would be the same as -7 + -1 = - 8. remember think of the "negative" sign as an instruction to make the number to the right of it the "opposite" sign; -(+7) = -7 or - (-7) = +7

THIS WILL HELP Signs the same + Signs different - (if it helps think of diffrent - because i turned around could be -)

I always have this common mistakes in math's.... And i mess up with whole maths

you are welcome!

I have had problems understanding p & n #s all of my life. I am so grateful for your teaching. Thank you!

Yoh thanks I'm studying for my cycle test You the best

Yuppp It's official, I am mentioning this channel in my graduation speech-

Out of all of these videos about integers this one was the most helpful. Thank you so much for making this easier to understand!!

Hi (-2) cubed is equal to (-2) x (-2) x (-2) = -8. You see we have a negative x negative x negative; let's multiply the first two negative (-2) x (-2) = positive 4. Now we take the +4 and multiply it by the last negative 2= so (4) x (-2) = -8

way to go! keep rocking math!

Holy crap finally a way to understand that made it simple. However the subtraction was the only one I didn't enjoy. Would have preferred to learn a different style for that one.

I went to school and I still have no idea how I passed without understanding this. You make it so simple. Thank you.

-7 - (-5) ok so what you do is change this into an addition problem by doing the "plus negative" so, the problem will change to - 7 + - (-5) now a negative of a negative is positive so this problem really is -7 + 5 = -2 keep working hard I hope this helps!

Hey guys I’m 11 and I’m currently getting really hard questions on my online tests (they go harder the better you do) and it’s taking me way above grade level. I have to multiply negative fractions and numbers and add them too . Thanks for helping! 💘

excellent! keep up the great work!

i watched so many videos but this one, this one makes me actually understand everything! im in my last year of middle school and thank you very much for teaching me this 🙏🏻🙏🏻

You are a life saver! Best and most precise method of teaching basic math

thanks so much. seriously i had no idea about that before and i have a test tomorrow u saved me from getting a bad score thanks.

Thanks you helped me with a maths test and i got good grades

I’m a 7th grader and did not understand this until I watched this video thank you so much!! I understand now

I was literally failing my algebra tests bc I get sooo confused with the adding and subtract rules but this video helped me out a lot THANK YOUUUU!!!!

I'm in 11th grade. And yet I still have to come back to this because I always forget

Hi everybody I just started watching this math video and I absolutely get it now. I give this a thumb up Thank you!

O my finally a TR. That teaches math in YT 😭 has finally understand my suffering and my problem, thx dear sir 💛

Thank you so much, John. I just learned more math in 7 minutes than I do in a 75 period at school.

the video is very helpful, thanks!

i found this video trying to find a song, but whatever. You know, when I was in the second-grade they asked me what three minus five was and I wanted to say negative-two, but they said I was wrong; that it was just two. . . Bastards.

Thank You for the refresher. I'll be teaching home school to my niece and it has been a few decades since I did math much less teach it. I was correct, but you verified and explained it easier than I would have.

Thank you so much for posting this! You explain this way better than Khan Academy by using the rules I learned in school. I’m trying to teach my kids-you have been very helpful😊

_Thanks sooooo soooooo much, I had a pretest today and I forgot about positive and negative integers in the summer....Whoops...._

thank u it helps

Great 💖RU-vid videos are better than sitting down in a class room because if you don't understand you can play over the video until you understand 👍

when i'm on class for 4 hour learning this and doesnt get it and you explaining it at only 8 minutes i really gets it

So when u multiply a positive and a negative it is always negative???

Thank u so much I have a test tomorrow just needed to review thanks again

This was a huge help thank you so much! I'm in 8th grade and I didn't understand the concept of integers and this was a huge help thanks!!

This guy seems like a really good teacher. He seems like he actually cares if we understand.

How the heck did I fail this in middle school and doing great in high school?!

whos watching at 2019??

About to do my Year 7 PPE's (Pre Public Exams) and am so happy that I finally understand these rules

Thank you for this- way more helpful then a teacher explaining it!!🙏🏻

I'm watching this in 2015 are u guys watching it in 2015

i'm in 8th grade... i learned this in 6th so don't feel bad....its confusing for me ESPECIALLY when you get into fractions... OMG its confusing as fuck.

Wow! If you were my math teacher then, I wouldn’t have feared math so much and would have saved much time. But, I thank God for you cause it’s not too late and I’m finally starting to enjoy doing math.

Thank you so much for making this video I just passed my GED seriously thank you!!!

(--3) -- (--4) =?........ How to solve this type of question??

Reply to me if you're watching in 2016 for homework help😂

Thank you!! This helped me pass my exit ticket and I got a 100 on it🥰🥰

this is SO helpful. i went in to grade nine never understanding integers, because i was never taught properly. i got a number line, and we learned using that, so when it was taken away, everybody that had been in my class was completely lost. don't get me wrong, the number line was super helpful, but it was a massive time waster and left a ton of room for error. this way is so much easier, thank you!

u should be a teacher my teacher even couldn't explain that to me soo thanks sssooooo much bosss!!!!!!

what if that problem is like 8+(-2)?

Thank you lol this really helped me understand this. You’re a great math teacher!

I am 13 I am in 7th grade we just learned how to do this in my class a few months ago I never understood this until now I will keep practicing and thank you for your amazing help