Ordering Numbers Absolute Value

Look at the number line. The letters f, g, h, i, and j all represent rational numbers. Drag the letters to order the absolute values of the numbers from greatest (left) to least (right).

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Evaluate: |-12|

• 12

• -12

• 0

• 1.2

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Compare 
-10  ____  -2 

• = 

• <

• > 

• = 

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7A

CCSS.6.NS.C.7B

Order the following greatest to least:

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6.2.C

After Round 3, Silas has moved a total of -10, Layla has moved a total of 1, and Liam has moved a total of 9. Drag the players' names to order them from the closest distance (left) to the farthest distance (right) from the starting point after Round 3.

• Silas

• Layla

• Liam

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1B

How do you know that 5 and -5 are opposites? 

• Because they both have a 5 

• They are the same distance from 0 and on opposite sides of 0 

• Because they are the same 

• They both are on a number line 

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CCSS.6.NS.C.6A

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7A

CCSS.6.NS.C.7B

The deepest that an untrained diver can go under normal conditions is -20 feet. The depth at which an expert diver can go without water pressure damaging their body is -101 feet. Write an inequality to compare -20 and -101.

​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• -20

• >

• -101

• <

• =

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7A

CCSS.6.NS.C.7B

Which of the following is the LEAST?

• |-2|

• |-4|

• |3|

• |-5|

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

Absolute value is

• a number's distance from zero

• the opposite of an opposite

• can be negative or positive

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C