Need some help on scrollTop

Need some help on scrollTop

I'm trying to incrementally scroll up a div content everytime I click on a button.
The following works well with an actual number.

      $('#content').animate({scrollTop: '+=10'});

However if I replace the number with a variable, it fail to work

      var num = 10;
      $('#content').animate({scrollTop: '+=num'});

What am I missing here?