Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
Veda Bites are swipeable micro-lessons — each one teaches exactly one idea. Here's a taste from this kit; the app has the full deck.
Two buttons, one number.
One press of plus lifts the car by a floor and one press of minus drops it by a floor. So +2 means two floors up and -3 means three floors down. The sign gives the direction and the digits give the distance.
Start from the entrance.
The entrance is where you walk in, so reaching it asks for no press at all. Give it the number 0. Every other floor is then named by the press that takes you there from the entrance.
Above and below get signs.
Floors above the entrance carry positive numbers such as +1 and +2. Floors below it carry negative numbers such as -1 and -2. One signed number is enough to name any floor in the tower.
Higher wins.
Read two floors as places in the shaft. Whichever one sits higher is the greater number. Floor -2 is two floors under the entrance and Floor -5 is five under it, so -2 > -5.
Do not trust the digits.
After a minus sign, bigger digits mean a lower floor. A lower floor is a smaller number. So -9 is smaller than -3, even though 9 is bigger than 3. Read the place, not the digit.
Zero is the divider.
Every negative number is less than 0 because it names a floor under the entrance. Every positive number is greater than 0. A positive number therefore beats any negative one, whatever its digits.
A fun tower with shops under the entrance, a lift with a plus button and a minus button, and the numbering that gives every floor a signed name with zero in the middle.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Which of two floors is higher, why a bigger digit after a minus sign means a smaller number, and the subtraction that tells you which button to press to get from one level to another.
~38 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
The lift shaft laid flat becomes a number line running both ways from zero, and a box of green and red tokens gives a second way of adding and subtracting integers.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Bank balances that dip below nothing, heights measured from sea level, winter readings under freezing point, and two grid puzzles that put every signed addition to work.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Where negative numbers came from, how account books in Asia gave them their first use, and the set of plain rules Brahmagupta wrote down in 628 that we still follow today.
~36 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
145 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Ishani walks in at the entrance and presses the plus button twice. At which floor does the lift stop?
BeginnerFloor +2
Two presses of plus lift the car two floors, so (0) + (+2) = +2.
A floor below the entrance is always given a ____ number.
Beginnernegative
Reaching it needs presses of minus, so its name carries a minus sign.
Which statement about zero is correct?
BeginnerZero is neither positive nor negative
No sign is written in front of zero, and it joins neither group.
Pranav is at Floor +4 and presses -6. Which floor does he reach?
IntermediateFloor -2
The sum (+4) + (-6) = -2, so he ends two floors below the entrance.
75 flashcards in this kit — the app reviews them with spaced repetition so the right card returns on the right day.
Every game is built from this kit's own content — scores feed your mastery, so playing counts as studying.
The full Veda Bites deck, complete notes, spaced-repetition flashcards, leveled MCQs, tests and games for this kit — plus Daily Facts and the Arena, every day.
