New York City Department of Education
Dance and Text
Use texts and dances to teach inequalities and equations. A sixth-grade unit covers using variables in equations and inequalities to solve problems. Learners show what they know at the end of the unit using two performance tasks, one...
Illustrative Mathematics
Video Game Credits
Help your learners understand how to divide fractions with this visual activity. They first answer a simple inequality before dividing the fractions. Two solution choices are given to help your mathematicians understand how to solve "how...
CK-12 Foundation
Multi-Step Inequalities: Summer Camp
No chaperones are necessary to use this resource. Scholars solve a multi-step inequality problem on summer camp chaperones by using a pictorial representation. They write inequalities to represent various situations in this context.
Curated OER
Connecting Math to Our Lives
Students participate in an online interactive forum to explore how math is used in their families and communities. They design games to submit to other students online, and identify and organize data to solve the problems from other...
Curated OER
Inequalities and The Order of Operations
Middle and high schoolers investigate how to solve inequalities. The lesson plan has a good guide for taking pupils through a direct instruction of the concept. You can use counting tiles in order to help kinesthetic learners.
Illustrative Mathematics
Fishing Adventures 1
Often inequalities exist in many real-world contexts but young math learners struggle with understanding how to represent that relationship in a simple equation using an inequality. This activity focuses on the basic concepts by using...
Illustrative Mathematics
Log Ride
The rides at a theme park always have limits on weight or number of riders. This makes a natural example of the use of inequalities to solve real-world problems. Learners explore intuitive solutions using substitution to solve the...
Curated OER
Applications And Problem Solving With Inequalities
For this math worksheet, students solve the word problems using inequalities. They translate the words into the correct expressions.
Curated OER
Lesson Plan 2: Linear Inequalities
Students investigate linear inequalities and the associated symbols. After a teacher demonstration, they translate given phrases into symbols. Students solve and graph solutions to linear inequalities. Using newspapers, they locate...
Curated OER
Solving Inequalities
Middle schoolers solve 10 different problems that include multiplication and division of various inequalities. They determine how to make each inequality true. Pupils multiply or divide both sides of an inequality by any positive number...
Worksheets Plus
Compare Decimals and Fractions Worksheets
Find here three printable math skills practice pages. The first simply asks learners to fill in the inequality signs for the comparison of two decimals. No number exceeds the hundreds place. Worksheet two compares fractions in tenths or...
Norm Mitchell
Quiz: Representing, Comparing, and Ordering Decimals
Here is a 42-question quiz dealing with decimals to the thousandths place. It is comprehensive in that it has test takers use inequality signs to compare pairs of decimal numbers, choose the least- or greatest-valued nubmer out of a set...
Curated OER
Liquid Killer
Students explore number sense applications and discuss strategies for multiplication and division using mental math. For cross-curricular purposes, they explore causes and effects of inequality and social injustice. Students explore...
Curated OER
A Human Number Line
Sixth graders create a human number line through use of symbols, equality, inequality, addition, subtraction, solving equations and inequalities
EngageNY
From Equations to Inequalities
Sometimes, equality just doesn't happen. Scholars apply their knowledge of solving equations to identify values that satisfy inequalities in the 34th installment of a 36-part module. They test given sets of numbers to find those that are...
Virginia Department of Education
Give or Take a Few
Young mathematicians extend their knowledge of rational numbers on a number line to graph inequalities by first using number cards to compare rational numbers. They finish by using similar reasoning to graph inequalities on a number line.
Noyce Foundation
Boxes
Teach your class to think outside the box. Scholars use the concept of equality to solve a problem in the assessment task. They determine how to use a scale to identify the one box out of a set of nine boxes that is heavier than the others.
Noyce Foundation
Gym
Give the class a mental work out with an assessment task in which young mathematicians compare several gym membership options. They use substitution to calculate the cost for given numbers of months.
Curated OER
Interval Notation and Linear Inequalities
In this interval notation and linear inequalities worksheet, students use number lines and solve equations. Students complete 64 problems total.
Virginia Department of Education
Greetings
Welcome learners to the world of algebra. Use a lesson that poses a situation involving the profit from creating greeting cards to teach about algebra. It requires scholars to use linear functions and inequalities to solve problems.
Curated OER
Toothpick Triangles
Students draw a chart (included in the lesson) to use with their investigation. They review terminology of triangles and receive toothpicks to use in the lesson. Beginning with three toothpicks, students form a triangle. They complete...
Curated OER
Inequalities
In this math worksheet, students find the answers to the problems that focus upon the inequalities. They must remember to change the sign of the inequality as necessary.
Curated OER
Comparing Mixed Numbers (A)
In this math worksheet, students answer 10 mixed number comparison problems. They are given a box in which to place a <, >, or = sign.
Math Drills
Comparing Decimals (A)
On a straightforward assignment, math whizzes write inequality symbols or the equal sign for 30 pairs of numbers. Use the page as homework, an assessment, or an in-class practice when working on CCSS.Math.Content.5.NBT.3.b.