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Substitution inquiry
The lesson aims to challenge students through exploring their understanding of inequalities and substitution. Students work collaboratively, following guided questions to explore the relationships between a set of inequalities. The lesson is aimed to challenge students' thinking, encouraging them to explore and deepen their conceptual understanding. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Algebra Number
- Topic
- Algebraic expressions Indices Operating with number
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- inequality substitution square number order of operations
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