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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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
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
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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Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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