Working with negatives and absolute values
This week in math I learned that when you are working with absolute values, a negative number gets changed to a positive because the absolute value means how far away from 0 it is.
For example if you had |-7|, and you wanted to find its absolute value, all you would have to do is change it from a negative to a positive. If you wanted to find the absolute value of |7|, it would also be 7. You can see here on the number line that -7 and 7 are both 7 spaces away from 0 so their absolute values are both 7. 