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When students come up with the product of -5 by -6 as -30, the students must be confusing this rule with that of a positive sign where +5 by +6 would remain +30. When a teacher writes this way without clarifying that positive sign is the same as the normal state of the numbers then this confusion will arise. Normal state of numbers +5 is the same as 5 but not -5.
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Mathematics When students come up with the product of -5 by -6 as -30, the students must be confusing this rule with that of a positive sign where ...
... examples then give them a multiplication problem containing signed numbers to do. After solving ask them to raise their hands if they have not gotten the concept.
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