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Summer Work: What the Amounts Mean

Interpret absolute value as distance from zero through summer lawn-mowing and babysitting records, debts, and arrival times.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.NS.C.7.c

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students interpret absolute value as a number's distance from zero.
Students use absolute value to describe the size of a debt or an arrival-time offset.
Students distinguish a signed quantity from its nonnegative magnitude.

How to use

Use after introducing signed numbers. Have students label the meaning of zero in each section, then discuss the final error-analysis question.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.NS.C.7.c

Understand absolute value as distance from 0 and use it to describe the size of a real-world quantity, like a debt.

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Summer Work: What the Amounts Mean

Use absolute value to interpret money records and arrival times.

Money and Distance from Zero

Nia and Omar mow lawns and babysit during summer. In their money records, a positive balance means money available, a negative balance means money owed, and zero means neither. Absolute value is distance from zero.