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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You know your left and right, correct? Five years old, you have heard the Hokey Pokey song.
Take one step right. Take one step left. You are back where you started, correct?
Same thing if you take one step left, then one step right. You’re back where you started.
In math, we call left “negative,” we call right “positive,” and we call where you started “zero.”
So translate “negative one-half” in your head to “one half step left.”
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