Integer (+/-) Inequalities with Absolute Value

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

The absolute value of zero is zero because...

• Zero is not a number.
• Zero is 0 distance from zero.  It is neither negative or positive.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

The absolute value of -6 is ___  the absolute value of 6. 

• greater than
• equal to 
• less than 

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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.7

Which of the following is the GREATEST?

• |-2|
• |-4|
• |3|
• |-5|

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Which of the following is the LEAST?

• |-2|
• |-4|
• |3|
• |-5|

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Compare. >, <, =.

-4 ______ -16

• =

• >

• <

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∣-5∣ _____ ∣5∣

• <
• >
• =

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

∣-61∣ ____ ∣5∣

• <
• >
• =

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

Compare. >, <, =

 $\left|196\right|$  ______  $\left|-196\right|$  

• >

• <

• =

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