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Animal Shelter: Goals, Gaps, and Supplies

Interpret absolute value using an animal shelter’s adoption goals, supply records, and unpaid bills. Connect signed quantities to distance from zero.

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 on a number line.
Students use absolute value to describe adoption gaps, supply differences, and the size of a debt.
Students distinguish a quantity’s size from the direction indicated by its sign.

How to use

Introduce the shelter’s record conventions, then have students work independently. Discuss how absolute value describes size but does not preserve a quantity’s direction.

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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Animal Shelter: Goals, Gaps, and Supplies

Use absolute value to describe how far a shelter record is from zero.

Supply Gaps

The shelter records actual supplies minus needed supplies. A negative record means a shortage; a positive record means extra supplies. Zero means exactly enough. Absolute value is distance from zero.