Countries

Worksheet Description

This worksheet presents a collection of problems that focus on different statistical measures from various countries. Students are tasked with writing absolute value expressions to represent the differences in population, GDP growth rates, life expectancy, area, literacy rates, unemployment rates, inflation rates, tourism revenue, internet penetration rates, and education expenditures between different countries or within a country over time. Each problem provides two distinct values, and the student must determine the absolute difference between these values. The worksheet uses real-world data to create mathematically relevant problems.

The educational goal of the worksheet is to help students understand and apply the concept of absolute value in the context of global statistics. It encourages students to recognize how absolute values can be used to quantify the magnitude of differences in various socio-economic indicators without concern for the direction of the difference. This exercise aims to develop students’ abilities to abstract numerical information from real-world contexts and to represent it mathematically. It also serves as a practice in analyzing and comparing country-specific data through the lens of mathematics.