Absolute Value as Magnitude and Distance

Meg is playing a card game with her friend, Iona. The cards have positive and negative numbers printed on them. Meg exclaims: "The absolute value of the number on my card equals 8!" What is the number on Meg's card?

• 8

• 8 or -8

• -8

• 18

The ______________ ____________ of a number is the distance between the number and zero on the number line.

Jamie told his math teacher: "Give me any absolute value, and I can tell you two numbers that have that absolute value." Is Jamie correct? For any given absolute value, will there always be two numbers that have that absolute value?

Use the number line to show why a number and its opposite have the same absolute value.

• A, B, C

• C, B, A

• C, D, E

• B, C, D

Write the answer to the absolute value:

|-5| =

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

Write the answer to the absolute value:

|100| =

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

• 19
• 11
• -1
• -19

Which day had the greatest absolute value