Identifying and Comparing Absolute Value

What do you know about distance?

• It can never be negative

• It can never be positive

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CCSS.6.G.A.3

CCSS.6.NS.C.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

What is the absolute value of -59?

• -59

• 59

• 49

• -49

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

l -350 l

• -350

• 350

• -351

• 351

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the absolute value of 31?

• 31

• -31

• 49

• -49

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

Evaluate each expression.
| 9 |

• 0.9
• 9
• -9
• 90

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CCSS.6.EE.A.2

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

What's a way to define absolute value?

• The value of a number
• The opposite of a number
• The distance of a number from zero
• The multiplicative inverse of a number

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

What is the absolute value of |-26|.

• 26
• -26
• 0
• -20

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

32____l40l

• <
• >
• =

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CCSS.6.EE.B.5

CCSS.6.EE.B.8

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

Which of the following is the GREATEST?

• |-2|
• |-4|
• |3|
• |-5|

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

What is the reason that absolute value is always written as a positive?

• Absolute value is talking about numbers so it must be positive.
• Absolute value does not always have to be positive.
• Absolute value is like a clock it has only positive numbers.
• Absolute value is talking about distance, distance is always measured by positive numbers.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C