Dinosaurs

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is a math exercise that uses dinosaurs as a theme to pose questions requiring the writing of absolute value expressions. The problems involve various measurements and estimations related to dinosaurs, such as lengths, weights, speeds, ages, and other attributes where students must express the differences between these measurements as absolute values. Each question provides two comparative values, and the task is to write an expression that correctly represents the absolute difference between these values. The dinosaur theme is used to make the math problems more engaging and to provide a context that might be of interest to students.

The worksheet is designed to teach students how to express the difference between two values as an absolute value, which is the non-negative value of the difference regardless of order. By applying this mathematical concept to the intriguing context of dinosaurs, students can learn to abstract and apply algebraic thinking to real-world scenarios. The variety of dinosaur-related scenarios also serves to pique the interest of students, potentially increasing engagement with the algebraic content. Through this worksheet, students practice the important skill of writing absolute value expressions, which is fundamental to understanding distance and magnitude in mathematics.