Discovering Absolute Value (ARC)
Dee Cooper, Northern Oklahoma College
Christi Hook, Northern Oklahoma College
Cecil Phibbs, Northern Oklahoma College
In An Absolute Value Discovery, Algebra for STEM instructors are provided with problems that introduce students to the concept of absolute value as a distance. The discovery will lead students to further understand absolute value as a distance measured from zero, and that both positive and negative values can have the same absolute value. Students can model these concept on number lines leading to formal equations which they can solve realizing the possibility of more than one solution or no solutions. This Activity can be used as a whole class discovery, in smaller groups or individually by students.
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