Learning Goals: Create a purpose for solving inequalities, understand that a solution is the value that makes a function true, and connect student strategies to formal inequalities.

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3 Act Math

• Nail Polish
  • Lesson Implementation Guide
  • Use big whiteboards and have each group member write with different colors
  • Write pre-scripted questions for audience members to ask during presentations

Classwork

• Connection Handout
  • Analysis problems taken from Algebra by Example

Answers

• Link to Answers

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Standards

• Common Core
  • HSA.CED.A.1 – Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations arising from linear and quadratic functions, and simple rational and exponential functions.
  • HSA.REI.B.3 – Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable, including equations with coefficients represented by letters.
• TEKS
  • A.5(B) – solve linear inequalities in one variable, including those for which the application of the distributive property is necessary and for which variables are included on both sides