How can understanding integers, absolute values, and coordinate planes help us solve real-world problems?
Critical Thinking: Students will engage in problem-solving by applying mathematical concepts to understand and solve real-world issues.
Responsibility: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how mathematical knowledge equips them to make informed, responsible decisions in daily life.
Communication: Students will articulate their mathematical reasoning and solutions effectively, both in writing and orally, using appropriate mathematical language and representations.
How do integers represent real-life situations like temperature changes or financial transactions?Â
In what ways do absolute values help us understand distances and differences in real scenarios?
How do coordinate planes assist in mapping and navigation in our daily lives?
Students will apply integers to model and solve problems related to financial literacy and climate science.
Students will use absolute values to determine distances and differences in various contexts.
Students will interpret and use coordinate planes to solve geographical and spatial problems.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.5: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.6: Understand a rational number as a point on the number line.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.7: Understand the ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.G.A.3: Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.
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