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Education Development Center

Absolute Value Reasoning

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Teach solving absolute value inequalities through inquiry. Groups use their knowledge of absolute value and solving inequalities to find a solution set to an absolute value inequality. Working collaboratively encourages discussion,...
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Trinity University

Trinity University: Inequality and Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Trinity University offers an overview of the problems of inequality in the education system in the United States. Has links to charts and articles about income and education.
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Other

Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council: World of 100 (Simulation)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This simulation activity teaches students about the inequities in access to global resources, and our responsibility as global citizens to protect the rights and welfare of people around the world who may be impacted by our economic...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Triangle Inequality Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the concepts underlying the Triangle Inequality Theorem by comparing side lengths and angle measures of a triangle. They will use an interactive construction to see why this theorem is true.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Triangle Inequality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity the Students can use Cabri Jr. to investigate the Triangle Inequality Theorm and make conjectures about their findings.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inequality Graphing App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity investigates the use of the Inequality Graphing App of the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to solve a linear programming problem.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Investigating the Triangle Inequality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One property of a triangle is that the sum of the lengths of any two sides must be greater than the length of the third side. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Other

Miniature Earth: Comparative Demographics Worldwide

For Students 9th - 10th
Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Verify Absolute Value Inequalities With a Graphical Approach

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find the solution sets of absolute value inequalities like abs(x-3)5 using the equation editor (y=). Focus on finding the boundaries of inequality intervals.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Winning Inequalities (Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students write and interpret a linear equation and an inequality with two variables and use the Inequality Graphing Application to map inequalities on a coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simplifying Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Like terms have the same degree variable or are constants. When solving an equation or inequality, like terms must be combined. Knowledge of variable expressions and equations assists in solving problems involving logic.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Maximizing Your Efforts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use linear programming to solve problems involving maximum and minimum values. They use the Inequality Graphing application to solve linear programming problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Linear Inequalities: Using Graphs and Tables

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn to estimate the solution set, in real numbers, of a linear inequality using graphical methods on a number line and on a Cartesian (x-y) graph. They also learn how to solve inequalities using tables.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Many Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the Inequality application to solve linear programming problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Linear Programming and the Inequalz App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the Inequality Graphing Application to take some of the frustration out of linear programming.It allows students to concentrate on the important part of the lesson, so they can learn the basic concepts with greater depth.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quadratic Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students solve quadratic inequalities using graphs, tables, and algebraic methods.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inequalities, They Are Not Just Linear Anymore!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students study quadratic relationships and explore the process of graphing quadratic inequalities and systems of quadratic inequalities. They will solve these inequalities algebraically and graph them on a coordinate plane.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Solving Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners investigate how to solve inequalities. The educational resource consists of notes about the concept, detailed examples, and practice problems.