Solving Equations & Understanding Inequalities Vocabulary

a mathematical sentence containing an equal sign

• expression

• equation

• inequality

• solution

pairs of operations which "undo" each other (opposite operations)

• inverse operations

• order of operations

• multiplicative inverse

• inequality

_<

• is greater than

• is greater than or equal to

• is less than or equal to

• is less than

≥

• is less than

• is greater than

• is greater than or equal to

• is less than or equal to

>

• is less than

• is less than or equal to

• is greater than or equal to

• is greater than

≤

• is greater than

• is greater than or equal to

• is less than

• is less than or equal to

a mathematical sentence containing an inequality symbol

• inequality

• equation

• expression

• distributive property

Passing out a factor or divisor to terms being added or subtracted

• associative property

• commutative property

• distributive property

• identity property

Replace a variable with a number

• equation

• solution

• inequality

• substitution

Any value of a variable which makes an equation or inequality true

• solution

• substitution

• equation

• inequality