Number Line

Number Lines

Math problems and finding distance on a number line

Distance on a number line

• Distance is always positive so we have to use absolute values to answer

• To find distance we subtract one point from the other

• Once completed you will change your answer to a positive

Absolute Values

 $\left|\ \ \ \ \ \right|$  In case you don't remember absolute value symbols look like lines around a math problem. The also represent the distance from 0 in math, in other words they change the solution to a positive.

Multiple Choice

What would the problem look like for this distance?

• $\left|-2-6\right|$

• $-2-6$

• $-2+6$

• $\left|-2+6\right|$

Multiple Choice

What is the solution?

• -8

• 8

• 4

• -4

Multiple Choice

What would the distance problem look like?

• $9+\left(-7\right)$

• $9-7$

• $\left|9-\left(-7\right)\right|$

• $\left|9-7\right|$

Multiple Choice

What is the solution?

• 2

• -2

• 16

• -16

Multiple Choice

What is the distance problem?

• $\left|5+1\right|$
  

• $\left|1-5\right|$

• $1-5$

• $5-1$

Multiple Choice

Solve the distance.

• 6

• -6

• 4

• -4

Multiple Choice

What is the distance problem?

• $\left|-18-4\right|$

• $\left|-4-18\right|$

• $\left|-4-\left(-18\right)\right|$

• $-18-\left(-4\right)$

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Distance

2 key parts to finding distance is to always subtract one point from the other and your answer should always be positive.

Creating math problems from number lines

• Find the starting point where it leaves from zero to the first value

• Follow based on where the previous arrow ended

Multiple Choice

What is the first number in the equation?

• 9

• -7

• 0

• 16

Multiple Choice

What is the equation?

• -9+7=16

• 16-7=9

• -7+16=9

Poll

What is the first number in the problem?

• 8

• 16

• -16

• -8

Multiple Choice

What does the equation look like?

• $8-16=-8$

• $16-8=8$

• $8-16=8$

• $-16+8=-8$

Multiple Choice

Write the equation.

• -16+12+7

• -16+12+7=3

• 7+12-16=3

• 3-7-12=-16