[FT]AMPLIFY 6.7.01: How Far? Which Way?

Students explore the concepts of magnitude and direction as they guide partners in a scavenger hunt and then a maze activity. In both activities, precise verbal language associated with magnitude and direction is necessary to guide a blindfolded partner (MP6). This lesson sets the stage for the important mathematical concepts of magnitude and direction as they relate to negative numbers, absolute value, and the four quadrants of the coordinate plane, which are explored in the rest of the lessons in this unit.

By Michelle Palker