Question

What does a negative times a negative equal? What does a negative times a positive equal?

Answer 1

-*-=+
+*-=-

Answer 2

Negative multiplied by a negative is a positive. A negative times a positive is a negative. You can remember this by the 2 negative signs making a positive sign, and the other just memorize.

Answer 3

I think of it as

negative = opposite

so if you have two negatives, you have two opposites which cancel each other out in a way

Answer 4

-*-=+
+*-=-
+*+=+ rule of signs

Answer 5

the opposite of a positive is a negative

so negative times positive = opposite of positive = negative