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Inequalities inquiry
Throughout the inquiry students will develop an understanding of applying the properties of law and how the four operations impact the rearrangement and placement of an inequality sign. Students can work collaboratively to interpret the worked examples.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Audience | Student, Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge, Evidence-based approaches, Extension, Planning support, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Worked examples, Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Growth mindset, Mathematics investigation, Metacognitive strategies, Questioning, Structuring lessons |
| Keywords | inequality, greater than, less than |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Algebra, Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Addition and subtraction, Algebraic expressions, Multiplication and division, Properties of number |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7A02
Formulate algebraic expressions using constants, variables, operations and brackets |
| Numeracy progression |
Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P6)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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