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Recycling Drive: How Large Is the Gap?

Interpret absolute value using a recycling drive’s collection goals, weighing errors, and expenses.

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, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students interpret absolute value as distance from zero.
Students use absolute value to describe the size of shortages, surpluses, and debts.
Students distinguish the size of a quantity from the meaning of its sign.

How to use

Have students read the signed collection records before working independently. Discuss how absolute value describes size without identifying a shortage or surplus.

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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Recycling Drive: How Large Is the Gap?

Use absolute value to describe shortages, surpluses, and amounts owed.

Distance from the Goal

A recycling drive collects cans, bottles, and paper. A signed gap shows how a collection compares with its goal: negative means below goal, positive means above goal, and zero means exactly at goal.