aka “negative fractions have never show’d up in my math classes until today but apparently I’m already supposed to know what they are”
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It’s helpful, for now and for later, to simply think if the negative sign not as an *amount*, but as a *direction*.
A simple example: -$0.50 doesn’t mean “negative fifty cents.” It means you owe someone else $0.50, and thus this fifty cents has a *direction* toward someone else.
This will be a useful idea if you ever use negative numbers in physical science courses (which you probably will). If you travel -2/3 of a mile toward something, youve just gone 2/3 of a mile in the OTHER direction, that is, away from it.
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