Adding Integers

These are many ways to add integers. One way for example -5 + -3 = -8. When you are adding integers, you add the numbers. The way you get the symbols (negative and positive) is you get it from the big number. In other words the sign of the big number. The answer is -8 because 5+3 = 8. Then you add the sign of the big number ( -5, so -).