Definitions
Opposites
Absolute Value
100
All the positive and negative whole numbers including the number 0
What is an Integer
100
What is the opposite of 3 degrees below zero? Give me the integer with the sign.
What is +3 or three degrees above zero?
100
|-6| =
What is 6
200
The name of these brackets | |
What is absolute value?
200
Opposite of +23
What is -23
200
-|-3| =
What is -3
300
What question do these brackets ask? | |
How far away from zero is the number inside of the brackets?
300
Which is higher, 5 feet below sea level or 4 feet below sea level? Also, what is that number's opposite?
What is 4 ft below sea level? What is -4?
300
|2| + |-2| =
What is 4
400
the direction on a number line in which numbers get larger
What is to the right?
400

The integer whose the opposite is itself.

What is zero?

400
|4| + |-4| + |1| =
What is 9
500
When this is present the absolute value of a negative number still a negative
What is when there is a negative sign on the outside of the absolute value brackets. Example: -|-4| = -4 or -|5| = -5
500
New Orleans is 8 feet below sea level, how many feet would it have to rise to be at sea level?
What is 8 feet?
500

Why is absolute value always positive or zero?

What is because it's only telling how far the number is away from the zero on the number line.