Unit 4

One-Step Equations and Inequalities

Unit 4
One-Step Enduring
Equations
and Inequalities
Understandings
Essential Questions
Students will
Determine if an equation or inequality is appropriate for a given situation
How
do equations
and inequalities
represent
life problems
situations?
Represent
and solve
mathematical
and realreal
world
with equations and
Howinequalities
is an equation like a balance? How can the idea of balance help me solve an
equation?
Interpret the solutions to equations and inequalities
What
strategies
I use to
me understand
and represent
real situations using
Represent
thecan
solutions
tohelp
inequalities
on a number
line
and
inequalities?
proportions,
Analyze theequations
relationship
between
dependent and independent variables through the use
Howofcan
I
write,
interpret
and
manipulate
proportions, equations, and inequalities?
tables, equations and graphs.
How can I solve a proportion, equation or inequality?
How can I tell the difference between an expression, equation and an inequality?
GSE Standards
How can proportions be used to solve
problems? Addressed:

How can proportional relationships be described using the equation y = kx?

MGSE6.EE.5 Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a
How
proportional
relationships
betrue?
represented
using rules,
tables, and
graphs?
specified set, if
any,can
make
the equation
or inequality
Use substitution
to determine
whether
a given number in a
How can
the graphorofinequality
y = kxbetrue.
interpreted for different contexts?
specified setmakes
an equation
How
does a change
in onenumbers
variableand
affect
theexpressions
other variable
insolving
a givena situation?
MGSE6.EE.6
Use variables
to represent
write
when
real-world or mathematical problem;
understand that
a variable
canmore
represent
unknown
number,
depending ona the
purpose
at hand,
Which
tells me
aboutan
the
relationship
I amor,
investigating,
table,
a graph
or a any number in a
specified set.
MGSE6.EE.7
Solve real-world and mathematical
problems by Skills
writing and solving equations
of the
form x + p
= qMaterials
and px =
Key Vocabulary
Prerequisite
Suggested
Resources
and
q for cases in which p, q and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.
MGSE6.EE.8
Write
inequality of the
form xparentheses,
< c or x > c brackets,
to represent
or condition in a real-world or
Addition
Property
of an
Equality
Using
or a constraint
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x<
c
mathematical
problem. Recognize that inequalities
of the formexpressions
x < c or x > c or Use graphic
have infinitely
many
solutions;
braces in numerical
Constant
of Proportionality
organizers
as tools
for
and
evaluate
expressions
with
connecting various representations.
Direct
Proportion
(Direct
represent
solutions
of such inequalities on number line diagrams.
these
symbols.
MGSE6.EE.9 Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that
change
in relationship to one another;
Hands
On Equations
Variation)

Write
and
interpret
numerical
write
an
equation
to
express
one
quantity,
thought
of
as
the
dependent
variable,
in
terms
of
theNCTM
other illuminations
quantity, thought
of as
Division Property of Equality
Pedal Power
lesson
on
the
independent
variable.
Analyze
the
relationship
between
the
dependent
and
independent
variables
using
graphs
and
expressions.
translating a graph to a story.
Equation
tables, and relate these to the equation.
Generating two numerical patterns
Interactive grapher from the National
Inequality
MGSE6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning
to solve
real-world
and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of
using
two
given
rules.
Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Inverse
Operation
equivalent
ratios, tape diagrams, double
number aline
diagrams,
or equations.
Interpret
fraction
as division

Algebra
Balance Scales
from
the National
Multiplication
Property
of Equality
MCGSE6.RP.3a
Make tables
of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements,
find
missing
values
Operations with whole numbers,
Libraryratios.
of Virtual Manipulatives
in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare
Proportion
fractions,those
and decimals
Manipulatives
in order to solve equations
MGSE6.RP.3b
Solve of
unit
rate problems including
involving unit pricing and
constant speed.
Subtraction
Property
Equality
Term
Variable