CONTENT: Classroom Examples >> TOPIC: Ratios and Proportional Relationships >> LEVEL: 8, Algebra >> TITLE: Graphing Linear Inequalities Return to Menu >>




This class period is devoted to California Standard 6.0, "Students are able to sketch the region defined by a linear inequality". In the video example James draws on the students' background knowledge of graphing linear equalities. A student identifies a pattern and is encouraged to test his hypothesis.

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Although James ran out of time to use them in this class period, he has developed word problems to extend the lesson.

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