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PEMDAS & Number Sense
NY-6.NS.5NY-7.NS.1

Reason with positive and negative rational numbers

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative numbers.

Learn the skill

  1. 1Add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative numbers.
  2. 2Use number lines, distance from zero, and sign rules to catch impossible answers.

Cited instruction

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Mathematics Guidance & Resources · New York State Education Department

Practice preview

Compute -24 + 5.

Compute 6 - (-24).

Compute -8 + 6.

Open adaptive practice

Course mapping reviewed by Nikhil on 2026-08-26. Practice is authored for PeerTutor and does not reproduce linked providers' exercises.

Reason with positive and negative rational numbers practice · PeerTutor