6th

Grade Math Happenings

Equations and Inequalities

Students Will:
Standards:
Explain if a value
from a set makes an 6.EE.5: Understand solving an equation or
inequality or equation inequality as a process of answering a question:
which values from a specified set, if any, make
true/false.
the equation or inequality true? Use substitution
Solve for the value of to determine whether a given number in a
specified set makes an equation or inequality
the variable using
true.
inverse operations. Key Terms:
6.EE.6: Use variables to represent numbers and
Write an expression or An equation is a mathematical sentence that write expressions when solving a real-world or
equation using a uses an equal sign, =, to show that two mathematical problem; understand that a
variable that helps expressions are equal. variable can represent an unknown number, or,
solve a real-world depending on the purpose at hand, any number
problem. Addition and subtraction are inverse in a specified set.
operations.
Solve real-world and 6.EE.7: Solve real-world and mathematical
mathematical Multiplication and division are inverse problems by writing and solving equations of
problems by operations the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in
which p, q and x are all nonnegative rational
evaluating an
A solution of an equation is a value that numbers.
expression or equation
when the variable is a makes the equation true.
6.EE.8: Write an inequality of the form x > c or
positive rational The variable representing the quantity that x < c to represent a constraint or condition in a
number. can change freely in an equation in two real-world or mathematical problem. Recognize
that inequalities of the form x > c or x < c have
variables is the independent variable.
Write an inequality infinitely many solutions; represent solutions of
about a real-world The variable whose value depends on the such inequalities on number line diagrams.
situation and independent variable in an equation in two 6.EE.9: Use variables to represent two
recognize that it has variables is the dependent variable. quantities in a real-world problem that change
infinite solutions.
in relationship to one another; write an equation
An inequality is a mathematical sentence to express one quantity, thought of as the
Graph that inequality that compares expressions. A solution of an dependent variable, in terms of the other
on a number line. inequality is a value that makes the inequality quantity, thought of as the independent
true. variable. Analyze the relationship between the
Write an equation
dependent and independent variables using
involving dependent The set of all solutions of an inequality is graphs and tables, and relate these to the
and independent called the solution set. equation.
variables and evaluate
that equation. The graph of an inequality shows all the
solutions of the inequality on a number line.



Equation X + 5 = 37 Equation 5x = 35

Inverse
X + 5 = 37
Inverse 5x = 35
Operation - 5 - 5 Operation 5 5


Solution X = 32
Solution X = 7
Check 32 + 5= 37 Check 5 ● 7 = 35


𝒙
Equation = 11 Equation X - 10 = 4
𝟑

Inverse 𝒙 Inverse X - 10 = 4
= 11 Operation
𝟑
𝒙
+ 10 + 10
3 ● = 11 ●3
𝟑
Solution X = 14
Solution X = 33
Check !!
= 11 Check 14 - 10= 4
𝟑

Less Than Greater Than

Symbol: < Symbol: >
Vocabulary Vocabulary
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b ≤ 12 b ≥ 57
Graph: Filled circle line left Graph: Filled circle line right