(−2)+3=
Let's locate negative 2 on the number line.
Since negative 2 is less than 0, we'll move two steps left from zero, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
Now let's look at the operation in the exercise.
Since the operation is
And since 3 is greater than 0, we'll move three steps right from negative 2, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
We can see that we arrived at the number 1.