If numbers are just numbers and operations (+, -, x, /) just symbols, oh... then maths is really boring.
Well, actually numbers can be imagined as values which make sense. HOW????
I was walking up the stairs with my lil chaaru behind. I had climbed 5 steps and she was still in the first step. Mummy come and hold my hand, lets walk up together. So i came down 4 steps.
Which step am I in? 1st step right.
This is how we should start learning integers, where down, below, back, wrong , etc generally denote the negative value of a number.
The above incident can be numerically written as 5+(-4)=1.
In a snake and ladder game I was in the 15th block. I gained 3 steps in the ladder and fell down by 7 steps. Where am I now. 15+3=18, 18-7=11. Here I have to come down by a total of 7 steps.
Draw the number line in a chart or a paper and stick it next to your bed. Try different jumping actions in the line till you understand the working of negative and positive numbers.
Whenever you work on the integers, visualise the number line (?), imagine it in your mind. The figure should be stuck in your mind. Remember that zero lies between the positive and negative numbers. Well, Iam sure you know that zero has no value, positive or negative.
There you got it!!!
Well, actually numbers can be imagined as values which make sense. HOW????
I was walking up the stairs with my lil chaaru behind. I had climbed 5 steps and she was still in the first step. Mummy come and hold my hand, lets walk up together. So i came down 4 steps.
Which step am I in? 1st step right.
This is how we should start learning integers, where down, below, back, wrong , etc generally denote the negative value of a number.
The above incident can be numerically written as 5+(-4)=1.
In a snake and ladder game I was in the 15th block. I gained 3 steps in the ladder and fell down by 7 steps. Where am I now. 15+3=18, 18-7=11. Here I have to come down by a total of 7 steps.
Draw the number line in a chart or a paper and stick it next to your bed. Try different jumping actions in the line till you understand the working of negative and positive numbers.
Whenever you work on the integers, visualise the number line (?), imagine it in your mind. The figure should be stuck in your mind. Remember that zero lies between the positive and negative numbers. Well, Iam sure you know that zero has no value, positive or negative.
There you got it!!!
