round them both the same way as if the negation sign did not even exist

Due to the young Gauß's misbehaviour, Herr J.G. Büttner, the primary school teacher, to keep the bored and unruly young schoolboy...(continues from the source quote).

[quote]Due to another of his misbehaved, the primary school's teacher of the young Gauß, Herr J.G. Büttner, to keep the bored and unruly young schoolboy Karl Friedrich Gauss busy for a good long time, while he teaching arithmetic to his mates, assigned him the problem of adding up all the whole numbers from 1 through a given number n.[endquote]

Would be better written as:
Due to the young Gauß, Herr J.G. Büttner's misbehavior while his teacher was teaching arithmetic to his classmates, his primary school teacher assigned him the problem of adding up all whole numbers from 1 to a given number n in order to keep him busy for a long time.

(Did someone use google translate on a german paragraph?)

Should negative numbers be rounded up or down?