Description
What our Multi-Step Inequalities lesson plan includes
Lesson Objectives and Overview: Multi-Step Inequalities explains how to solve multi-step inequalities. Students are reminded they must solve each side of the equation down to a single number before they can compare them. The lesson briefly reviews greater than and less than signs. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to solve multi-step inequalities using addition, subtraction, and grouping symbols. This lesson is for students in 3rd grade and 4th grade.
Classroom Procedure
Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the blue box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand. The supplies you will need for this lesson include scissors and glue sticks.
Options for Lesson
Included with this lesson is an “Options for Lesson” section that lists a number of suggestions for activities to add to the lesson or substitutions for the ones already in the lesson. If you have more advanced students, you can have them solve problems involving multiplication and division. For an additional activity, you could have your students create their own multi-step inequalities for their peers to solve. You could also have your students write their own inequality problem and find other students who are greater than, less than, and equal to their number.
Teacher Notes
The teacher notes page includes lines that you can use to add your own notes as you’re preparing for this lesson.
MULTI-STEP INEQUALITIES LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES
Multi-Step Inequalities
The Multi-Step Inequalities lesson plan includes three content pages. Inequalities are math sentences that use symbols to explain the relationship between two expressions. The expressions go on the left and right sides of the inequality symbol. The inequality symbols are > (greater than) and < (less than).
When you solve multi-step inequalities, you need to simplify the expressions on both the left and right sides to a single number. You then compare the numbers, using an inequality symbol to show how they’re related.
For example, let’s look at an inequality: 7 + (10 – 2) ? 19 – 3 (where ? is the place that the inequality symbol will go). First, you simplify the left side: 7 + (10 – 2) = 7 + 8 = 15. Next, simplify the right side: 19 – 3 = 16. Finally, compare using an inequality symbol: 15 < 16. We use the less than sign because 15 is less than 16. The less than sign makes the statement true.
It’s important to simplify both sides of the equation, always remembering to follow the order of operations and solve what’s inside the parenthesis first.
The lesson walks through a few more example problems, showing how to solve them step-by-step. With a little practice, solving multi-step inequalities can be very easy!
MULTI-STEP INEQUALITIES LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS
The Multi-Step Inequalities lesson plan includes four worksheets: an activity worksheet, a practice worksheet, a homework assignment, and a quiz. You can refer to the guide on the classroom procedure page to determine when to hand out each worksheet.
CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITY WORKSHEET
For the activity worksheet, students will cut out the inequality symbols on the worksheet and glue them in the correct space, showing their work.
MULTI-STEP INEQUALITIES PRACTICE WORKSHEET
The practice worksheet asks students to answer five questions about the lesson material.
SYMBOLS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
For the homework assignment, students will fill in each blank on the worksheet with <, >, or =, showing their work.
QUIZ
This lesson also includes a quiz that you can use to test students’ understanding of the lesson material. For the quiz, students will first draw the correct symbols for less than, greater than, and equal to. They will then fill in the blanks in a few problems with <, >, or =, showing their work.
Worksheet Answer Keys
This lesson plan includes answer keys for the practice worksheet, the homework assignment, and the quiz. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.
