Post Assessment: Absolute Value Inequalities

For your assessment, think about something in your life (hopefully youll choose
something that you find interesting!) that involves a range of numbers. To start,
brainstorm a short list of subjects that interest you. Once you have a good subject, you
just need to do five things:
1) Write a description (in words) of all the information pertaining to your range of
numbers.
2) Write an absolute value inequality to represent that situation.
3) Solve and graph it (showing all necessary steps.)
4) Make 2 lists: one of acceptable solutions (numbers that check out) and one of
unacceptable
solutions (numbers that dont check out).
5) Write an absolute value inequality to represent the unacceptable solutions.
Solve and graph it.
The information in all 5 of these representations should match each other.
Since having a range of numbers is the key idea behind absolute value
inequalities, use your brainstor
m list to help you think of possible ways to tie in this range of values concept
to something that youre interested in. Heres an example by an imaginary student,
Bubba (and how his interests each relate to a range of values):
Bubbas list of interests
skiing (the amount of snowfalltoo much snow makes it tough to move, too little
and you cant ski)
Womens shoes (heel heightvery tall and very small are nice, but mid-sized
pumps are too plain!)
fishin (the weight of an acceptable fish)
pizza (the appropriate amount to eattoo much and you get fat, too little and
youre still hungry)
gaming (if he plays too much he doesnt get anything else donetoo little and he is
not satisfied)
Lets say Bubba likes womens shoes and chooses that as his topic. He likes shoes
with a heel larger than 4 inches and smaller than 1 inch. To represent this
algebraically, he writes |2.5 h| > 1.5. All he needs to do now is solve it, graph it and
list his numerical solutions and non-solutions, write the unacceptable set inequality (|
2.5 h| < 1.5), make it look attractive, and hes done!

# of
Points

Component

Title

Neatness & Organization

Creativity, Originality, & Personalization

Authentic, Matching Representations

Situation

2
2

Teacher
Grade

Post

Includes a title relevant to the theme

Are people interested in looking at it?

Is an authentic absolute value inequality in

which all 5 representations (situational,
graphic, 2- algebraic, numeric,) match

Describes the endpoints and inequality

correctly
Grammatically correct
Algebraic Inequality
Contains inequality with the variable
defined
Numeric solution set
List of acceptable solutions: 3 values in the
solution set
List of unacceptable solutions: 3 values that
are not in the solution set
One of the endpoints must be included in
either the Acceptable or Unacceptable list
Solving and the Graph
Show all steps to solving the inequality
including the conjunctive (and or or)
Correctly scaled and spaced
Correct open vs. closed circles at endpoints
Unacceptable Set Inequality, Solution and Graph
Correct Inequality
Correct solution with steps
Correct graph label any non-sensible solutions
Extra Credit Self Grade

25
Assessment:
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Self
Grade

TOTAL
Absolute Value Inequalities

Name _________________Block

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