Lesson Plan: Inequalities and Interval Notation Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to solve simple and compound linear inequalities and how to express their solutions using interval notation.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recognize the properties of inequalities over the real numbers—that is, for an inequality we have
- addition property where is a real number,
- multiplication by a positive real number (if then ),
- multiplication by a negative real number (if then ),
- solve simple inequalities and represent their solutions on a number line and in interval notation,
- solve more complicated inequalities, including compound inequalities, and represent their solutions on a number line and in set notation,
- solve inequalities including radical coefficients.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- solving equations and representing their solutions on a number line,
- solving equations involving radical coefficients,
- solving one- and two-step inequalities,
- intervals and set notation,
- real numbers and operations on them.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- nonlinear inequalities,
- two-variable inequalities.
