Grade: Sixth
Essential Question
What is the absolute value of a number
and how does it relate to its position on
the number line?
Can I compare real-world situations when
using negative integers?
Big Idea
Absolute value is a measure of distance
and not value as a number.
Journal Task
Describe how that the absolute value of a
number is always positive. How can
negative numbers have a positive absolute
value?
Lesson 13 – Absolute Value and Ordering
Standard 6.NS.5, 6.NS.C.7(a-d)
Understand that positive and
negative numbers are used
together to describe quantities
having opposite directions or
values. (e.g. above/below zero)
Understand ordering and
absolute value of rational
numbers.
A- Interpret statements of
inequality as
statements about the
relative position of two
numbers on a number
line.
B- Write, Interpret, and
explain statements of
order for rational
numbers in real-world
contexts.
C- Understand the
absolute value of a
rational number as its
distance from 0 on the
number line. Interpret
absolute value as
magnitude for a
positive or negative
quantity in a real-world
situation.
D- Distinguish
comparisons of
absolute value from
statements about
order.
I can order numbers by their
absolute value.
I can apply my knowledge of
integers to real- world
Vocabulary
Absolute value, horizontal,
vertical, zero, number line,
integers, positive, negative,
equality, inequality, signs of
inequality(<,>,=)
Week: 10
Learning Targets
Write, interpret, and explain
statements of order for rational
numbers.
Understand absolute value of a
rational number as the distance from 0
on the number line.
Interpret absolute value as the
magnitude of the number from 0 in
real-world situations.
Distinguish comparisons of absolute
value from statements about order.
Strategies:
Absolute value is always positive.
Continually use the words measure and
not order.
Absolute value is a marker of distance
only.
situations.
I can prove that absolute value
is just the distance between any
integer and zero and make
applications in real-world
settings.
I can show the difference
between absolute values and
statements about integer order.
.
Resources
ELL support-p.129 Concept extension/Real-World connection-p.130
Concept Extension-p.131 Hands on activity-p.134
Hands on and Challenge Activity p. 137
Student workbook- pgs. 129-136
Illustrative Mathematics
Above and Below Sea Level
Jumping Flea
Fractions on a Number Line
Integers on a Number Line
Comparing Temperatures