Number Lines and Absolute Value

What does this symbol around the -6 mean?

|-6|

• Parentheses

• Absolute Value

• It is the number 1

• Opposite

Evaluate:

|5|

Use the number line if you need to.

• 5

• -5

• 0

• 10

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6

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Evaluate the following absolute value:

|-3|

Use the number line if you need to.

• -3

• 0

• 6

• 3

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7

What is the definition of absolute value?

• The opposite of a number.

• That number plus zero.

• The distance of a number to zero.

• That number plus its opposite.

This morning it was 35 $\degree$ F.  Then the temperature was 50 $\degree$  F by lunchtime.  How much did the temperature rise? 

• 85 $\degree$ 

• -15 $\degree$ 

• 15 $\degree$ 

• 35 $\degree$ 

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

The temperature in Antarctica yesterday was 10 $\degree$ F.  Today, the temperature is -2 $\degree$ F.  How much did the temperature drop? (Hint, use zero on the number line to help.)

• 8 $\degree$  

• 12 $\degree$  

• 20 $\degree$  

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.6

What is the distance between 5 and -3 on the number line?

(Just write the number as your answer.)

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6

CCSS.6.NS.C.7

CCSS.6.NS.C.8

The temperature in Juneau, Alaska is      6 $\degree C$ .  If the temperature dropped 7 degrees, what is the new temperature? 

• 1 $\degree C$  

• -1 $\degree C$  

• 13 $\degree C$  

• -7 $\degree C$  

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.6

What number is the opposite of +4 (positive 4)?

• 0

• 8

• -4

• +4

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

What is wrong with this number line?

• The spacing is not even.

• Positive numbers go to the left of zero and negative numbers are to the right of zero.

• Zero should be all the way to the left on the number line.

• The negative numbers are in the wrong order.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

CCSS.6.NS.C.6

CCSS.6.NS.C.7