Key Question
How can you describe how
far you have to go between
two deliveries?
Learning Goals
1. understand that integers communicate
distance and direction; and
2. recognize that absolute value is a measure of
distance, not direction.
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1. Who lives at lot 7? 4. Where does ____________live?
5. Where does ____________live?
2. Who lives at lot -5?
3. Who lives at lot -8?
Write who lives at each distance from Central Park and record their addresses.
6. Six lots from Central Park. 9. Nine lots from Central Park.
7. Three lots from Central Park. 10. Why are there two answers?
8. Seven lots from Central Park.
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11. Who lives three lots from lot 5? 14. Who lives five lots from lot -1?
12. Who lives four lots from lot 2? 15. What patterns can you use to determine
the address of two lots the same distance
from a location?
13. Who lives two lots from lot -6?
16. How far apart are lots 8 and 3? 19. How far apart are lots 8 and -2?
17. How far apart are lots -7 and 2? 20. How far apart are lots -9 and -2?
18. How far apart are lots -4 and 3?
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21. What directions would you give to get from 9 23. What directions would you give to get from
to 5? Write a number sentence to give the -4 to 1? Write a number sentence to give the
directions and the destination. directions and the destination.
22. What directions would you give to get from 3 24. What directions would you give to get from -7
to -2? Write a number sentence to give the to -1? Write a number sentence to give the
directions and the destination. directions and the destination.
25. Who lives at the destination given by following 27. Who lives at the destination given by
the directions: 4 – 6 = ? following the directions: -3 + 8 = ?
26. Who lives at the destination given by following 28. Who lives at the destination given by
the directions: -2 – 5 = ? following the directions: -5 + 6 = ?
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1. What does the number in
the address tell you about
the lot’s location?
2. What does the sign in the
address tell you about the
lot’s location?
3. How can you determine the
number of lots between two
addresses?
4. What different things can the minus,
or negative sign, and the plus, or
positive sign, tell you in a number
sentence?
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