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Introduction to Inequalities
For students with special needs, the teacher speaking “math” to students sounds like the teacher from the Peanuts cartoons. This is apparently the case when students are learning about inequalities such as x < 4 because I have seen many high school and college students struggle with this topic. The challenge is that teachers are…
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Intro to Graphing Inequalities
For years over many settings from middle school to college I have witnessed students struggle to make sense out of inequalities like x < 4. Not only is the concept of an inequality of an inequality challenging, merely reading the symbol is problematic. This post shows an concept based approach to making sense of inequalities.…