www.timbedley.com A cool little trick that will make your life complete. 20-year veteran elementary school teacher Tim Bedley shows how adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers can be a painless experience. For more teaching ideas and educational videos please visit http

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10 comments until now

  1. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    THNX UR A REALLLY GOOD TEACHER

  2. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    Thanks man! Really is gonna help me on my quiz.

  3. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    Thanks animallover…but that’s actually how you multiply integers, not add and subtract. -9 +(-9) is actually -18, not positive 18.

  4. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    READ THIS ITS WAY BETTER FOR LEARNING. YOU WILL GET IT RIGHT AWAY.when you see a question like: +9 – (-4)=
    see how there is 2 – next to eachother, that means its +, just forget about the + on the left, never look at it. always look at the right +/-
    LOOK HERE!!!.
    + + = +
    - – = +
    - + = -
    + – = -
    What you see up there
    ^
    is alway on the right. its not the first part of the question like -9 + (-9)
    ^never look at that -
    look at the next + and –
    sooo + – = – so the question equals18

  5. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My son finally got it. I just wish I would have found your video sooner.

  6. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    The best educational video ever although you should make it more exciting E.G. Robber vs police or food vs people to eat it!

  7. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    negative kitties! poor kitties

  8. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    omg so gelpful! thx alot

  9. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    a suggestion for you:
    your hand doesn’t let us see what you’re writing sometimes. Specially when you teach “two negatives make a positive”.
    Very good video though, I showed my students.

  10. billy tomson @ 2010-02-25 02:10

    I’m in college algebra and I have to do this sometimes still lol.
    Thanks for this method, it unscrambles the whole thing.

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