Grade 6 Math

Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

1-5

Sept./Oct

· Statistics-Real World Use of Whole Numbers

· Reading and Interpreting Graphs

· Displaying Data

· Describing Data

· Make Tallies

· Make Frequency Charts

· Manipulate Line Plots

· Study Scatter plots and Trends

· Create Stem and Leaf Plots

· Understand Scales and Bar Graphs

· Calculate Mean, Median, Mode

· Identify Outliers

· Completing Problem Solving Handbook

· Understanding Misleading Graphs

IV.A1

IV.A2

IV.A3

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

6-9

Oct./Nov.

· Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra

· Making Sense of Large Numbers

· Number Sense and Operation Sense

· Introduction to Algebra

· Read and Write Large Numbers

· Round Large Numbers

· Compare and Order Large Numbers

· Understand and calculate with Exponents

· Utilize Mental Math

· Estimating Sums and Differences

· Estimating Products and Quotients

· Apply the Order of Operations

· Identify Numerical Patterns

· Understand Variables and Expressions

· Writing Expressions

· Using Equations

· Solving Equations

· White Boards

· Homework

· Accelerated Math/objectives

· Review

· Chapter 2 Test

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

II.A2

II.A1

II.B11

II.A2

II.B9

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

10-13

Nov./Dec

· Decimals

· Decimal Concepts

· Adding and Subtracting with Decimals

· Multiplying and Dividing with

Decimals

· Write numbers in Decimal Notation

· Rounding Decimals

· Comparing and Ordering Decimals

· Represent Numbers in Scientific Notation

· Estimating with Decimals

· Adding and Subtracting Decimal Numbers

· Solving Decimal Equations Addition and Subtraction

· Multiplying a Whole Number by a Decimal

· Dividing decimal by a Whole Number

· Dividing a decimal by a Decimal

· Solving Decimal Equations: Multiplication and Division

· Section Practice

· Chapter 3 test

· Chapter 3 Practice Test/Partner

· Cumulative Review 1-3

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

II.A2

II.A1

II.B6

II.A2

II.B3

II.B4

II.B3

II.B4

II.B3

II.B4

II.B3

II.B4

II.B3

II.B4

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

14-16

Dec./Jan.

· Measurement

· Units Of Measurement

· Area of Polygons

· Circles

· Graduation Standard

· Measuring Task

· Tangram Task

· Jackets Task

· Creating a Design Task

· Finding a Route Task

· Computing Perimeter

· Performing metric conversions

· Using Conversion Factors (Metric and Customary)

· Computing the Area of Square and Rectangles

· Computing the area of Parallelograms

· Computing the Area of Triangles

· Discovering Pi

· Computing the Area and Circumference of Circles

· Computing the Area of Irregular Figures

· Creating Tessellations

· Describing and analyzing two and three dimensional shapes

· Analyzing and creating new shapes by combining, dissecting or transforming existing shapes

· Representing a three dimensional shape in a two-dimensional view

· Measurement: identifying type of measurement required, selecting appropriate tools and units of measurement, and measuring accurately

· Navigating maps or graphs to determine the most efficient routes

· Grad Standards Projects

· Chapter 4 Test

· Chapter 4 Partner Test

· Quizzes

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

· Cumulative Review

V.C3

V.C1

V.C3

V.B3

V.A1

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

17-19

Jan./Feb.

· Patterns and Number Theory

· Number Theory

· Connecting Fractions and Decimals

· Demonstrate Divisibility Rules

· Illustrate the Prime Factorization of a number

· Calculate Least Common Multiples of two numbers

· Understanding Fractions Write Fractions in Lowest Terms (GCF)

· Convert Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers

· Comparing and Ordering Fractions

· Chapter 5 Test

· Finding a Route task

· Quizzes

· Chapter 5 Partner Test

· White Boards

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

· Projects

II.B1

II.B2

II.A1

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

20-22

Feb./

March

· Adding and Subtracting Fractions

· Adding and Subtracting Fractions

· Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers

· Adding and Subtracting Fractions-Like Denominators

· Adding and Subtracting Fractions-Unlike Denominators

· Solving Equations by adding and Subtracting Fractions

· Estimating Mixed Number Sums and Differences

· Adding Mixed Numbers

· Subtracting Mixed Numbers

· Practice

· Quizzes

· Chapter 6 test

· Chapter 6 Partner Test

· White Boards

· Cumulative Review 1-6

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Cumulative Review

· Quizzes

II.A2

II.B7

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

23-25

March

· Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

· Estimating Products/Quotients of Fractions

· Multiplying by a Whole Number

· Multiplying by a Fraction

· Dividing Whole Numbers By Fractions

· Dividing Fractions by Fractions

· Solving Fraction Equations: Multiplication and Division

· Chapter 7 test

· Chapter 7 Partner Test

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

· Cumulative Review

II.A2

II.B7

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

26-29

March/

April

· The Geometry of Polygons

· Lines and Angles

· Polygons

· Transformations

· Classifying Lines and Angles

· Measuring Angles

· Exploring Angles in a Triangle

· Exploring Sides of a Triangle

· Classify Polygons

· Classify Quadrilaterals

· Identify Flips and Line Symmetry

· Identify Turns and Rotational Symmetry

· Identify Slides and Tessellations

· Shape Space Measurement Journals

· Chapter 8 Test

· Chapter 8 Partner Test

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Quizzes

· Tessellation Project

· Cumulative Review

V.B1,V.B4

V.A2

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

29-36

April/

May

· Ratio, Proportion, and Percent

· Ratios and Rates

· Proportions

· Percents

· Graduation Standard-
Chance and Data Handling

· Cereal Box Pen Task

· Our Own Investigation Task

· Roll the Dice Task_

· Understand a percent

· Connecting Percents to Fractions.

· Finding a Percent of a number

· Evaluating and solving problems, including calculating basic measures of center and variability

· Demonstrating the understanding of basic concepts of probability

· Calculating simple probabilities (experimental)

· Formulating a question and designing an appropriated data investigation

· Organizing raw data and representing it in more than one way

· Analyzing data by selecting and applying appropriate data measurement concepts

· Critique various representations of data

· Devise and conduct simulated probability

· Predicting future results based on experimental results

· Partner work

· Fair and Unfair Games

· Chapter Tests

· Accelerated Math/Objectives

· Homework

· Daily Work

· Math Journal

· Cumulative Review

· Quizzes

II.B8 (1%-100%)

IV.B1

(I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4)

All year

Too much or not enough information in a story problem

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of multi-digit whole numbers

Multiple and divide without a calculator 3 digit by 2 digit numbers

Use the relationship between moving decimal point and the operations of multiplication and division by powers of ten

· Know problem-solving strategies

· know basic facts

· know processes of basic operations

Accelerated Math

I.5

II.B3

II.B4

II.B6

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