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Phone Plans: Balance or Size?

Compare phone account balances and data allowance records while distinguishing numerical order from absolute value.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.NS.C.7.d

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1 Common Core standard
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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students distinguish comparisons of signed values from comparisons of absolute values.
Students interpret account balances and data allowance differences using order and magnitude.
Students explain why a greater absolute value does not always mean a greater signed value.

How to use

Have students read each sign convention before comparing the records. Use the final explanation to check whether students distinguish magnitude from order.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.NS.C.7.d

Tell comparisons of absolute value apart from statements about order, such as a larger debt being a smaller balance.

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Phone Plans: Balance or Size?

Distinguish signed values from their distances from zero.

Account Balances

A negative balance means money owed. A positive balance means credit available. Compare the signed balance when asked which balance is greater; compare absolute values when asked about distance from $0.