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Class Trip Budget: What the Amounts Mean

Interpret absolute value through a class trip budget, including bus payments, meal costs, museum tickets, and distances from zero.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.NS.C.7.c

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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, Matching, 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 debts and the size of budget differences.
Students distinguish the size of a quantity from the meaning of its sign.

How to use

Use after introducing absolute value notation. Have students complete the budget tasks independently, then discuss how a sign and an absolute value provide different information.

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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Class Trip Budget: What the Amounts Mean

Use absolute value to describe distances, debts, and budget differences.

Trip Payment Balances

A negative balance means money is still owed. A positive balance means extra money remains. A zero balance means nothing is owed or left over. Absolute value, written |x|, is the distance of x from 0.