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ABSOLUTE VALUE - Introduction

Author: Kate Sidlo

TO DO:

Watch the podcast and take notes.

Use your notes and the examples to help you with your practice and assignments.

ABSOLUTE VALUE - Introduction

This podcast introduces students to absolute value, the definition, solving numeric expressions, arithmetic expressions, and single-variable equations.

VOCABULARY

ABSOLUTE VALUE: The distance from a term to zero along a number line.

COEFFICIENT: A number being multiplied by a variable.  Example: 3x (coefficient is 3)

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Read more about absolute values from PURPLE MATH:

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/absolute.htm