Minus Sign for Dummies

Hey there! So, let's talk about the minus sign. It's a symbol that looks like a little dash up high, right? When you see it in math, it means we're taking away or subtracting something. Just like when you have 5 and you take away 2, you write it as 5 – 2, with that little minus sign in the middle. It's like a signal that tells us we're doing the opposite of adding.

So, imagine you have a bag of jellybeans, and you start with 10 jellybeans. But then you give 3 jellybeans to your friend, so you need to take them away from your bag, right? Well, that's like using the minus sign in math. It shows that you're making the numbers smaller by taking something out. And that's all the minus sign does – it tells us to take away or subtract something from a number. Cool, right?