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Music Festival: Tickets and Timelines

Practice subtracting rational numbers as adding opposites and finding distances through music festival ticket records and stage schedules.

Grade 7MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to7.NS.A.1.c

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 7
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students rewrite subtraction of rational numbers as addition of the opposite.
Students find distances between rational numbers using the absolute value of their difference.
Students apply signed subtraction and distance to ticket records and stage schedules.

How to use

Use for independent practice after introducing subtraction of signed numbers. Discuss how a signed difference differs from a distance.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.NS.A.1.c

Understand subtracting as adding the opposite, and see the distance between two numbers as the absolute value of their difference.

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Music Festival: Tickets and Timelines

Use opposites and absolute differences to check festival records.

Check the Records

Rewrite subtraction using addition of the opposite when needed. Keep signs in your answers.

A ticket ledger totals −21 tickets after sales and cancellations. A cancellation entry of −8 tickets was entered by mistake. Remove that entry by subtracting it from the total.

−21 − (−8) = −21 + = tickets

A schedule editor rewrites four subtractions. Which rewrite is incorrect?