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Give Me Seven Apples

September 3, 2024From the book Math for English Majors

Someone with four apples is asked to hand over seven. Their basket is left holding three dark, ominous negative apples.

Transcript

[1] "I have four apples in my basket!" "Give me seven." "Um, okay!"

[2] "What do you see in there?" "You don't want to know." [The basket now holds three black "negative" apples]

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-give-me-seven-apples/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Number & Arithmetic › Negative NumbersNumber & Arithmetic › Subtraction
Level
ElementaryMiddle School
Themes
FoodVisual Explanations