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Single Variable Linear Inequalities

Strand: Patterns and Relations (Variables and Equations)
Outcomes: 5, 6 and 7

Step 4: Assess Student Learning

Guiding Questions

• Look back at what you determined as acceptable evidence in Step 2.
• What are the most appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning?
• How will I align my assessment strategies with my teaching strategies?

Sample Assessment Tasks

In addition to ongoing assessment throughout the lessons, consider the following sample activities to evaluate students' learning at key milestones. Suggestions are given for assessing all students as a class or in groups, individual students in need of further evaluation, and individual or groups of students in a variety of contexts.

A. Whole Class/Group Assessment

Examples of Whole Class/Group Assessment  

B. One-on-one Assessment

Examples of One-on-one Assessment  

C. Applied Learning

Pose opportunities for students to create and solve linear inequality problems that involve travel, money, age or number. Some ideas that may help students get started in the creation of questions is to have them investigate the following:

• the impact that increasing mass has on the length of an elastic; using the same elastic, students should measure its original length and then hang increasing masses on the elastic and measure the changes
• how increasing the length and width of a square or rectangle by two or four units changes the value of the unknowns in the equation
• fuel consumption on a family trip (comparing a small and large vehicle).