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Order and absolute value: 6th grade math

Order and absolute value. A free 6th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: order and absolute value.

Teach (10 min)

  • On the number line, the number further left is always less.
  • −8 < −3, because −8 is further below zero.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/negatives.compare?lesson=6-compare-negatives&at=6

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Which is warmer? −1° ? −2°
  • 2. Which is warmer? 15° ? −19°
  • 3. Which is warmer? 1° ? −4°

Question set

5 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Which is warmer? −1° ? −2°
  2. Which is warmer? 15° ? −19°
  3. Which is warmer? 1° ? −4°
  4. Which is warmer? −1° ? −7°
  5. Which is higher? −5 ft ? −14 ft
Answers
  1. −1 > −2
  2. 15 > −19
  3. 1 > −4
  4. −1 > −7
  5. −5 > −14

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Order and absolute value (6th grade)

  1. Which is higher? −18 ft ? −20 ft
  2. Which is warmer? −9° ? 17°
  3. −1 ? 14
  4. −4 ? −2
  5. Which is warmer? 18° ? −1°
  6. −19 ? −7
  7. −1 ? −7
  8. −17 ? −13
  9. −3 ? −16
  10. −8 ? 1
  11. Which is higher? −4 ft ? −18 ft
  12. Which is warmer? 15° ? −19°
Key
  1. −18 > −20
  2. −9 < 17
  3. −1 < 14
  4. −4 < −2
  5. 18 > −1
  6. −19 < −7
  7. −1 > −7
  8. −17 < −13
  9. −3 > −16
  10. −8 < 1
  11. −4 > −18
  12. 15 > −19

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