Category Archives: 6.02b

use addition and subtraction to solve problems involving fractions and decimals

Oct. 11- Oct. 15

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Overview:Using prior knowledge of Greatest Common Factors and Least Common Multiples, students will model, compare, add, and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators.  Answers should be judged for reasonableness.  Customary and metric rulers will be used to demonstrate knowledge of the use of fractions in measurement.

Focus: Students will apply their prior knowledge of modeling the addition and subtraction of fractions to solve problems involving real-life situations.

TEKS: 6.02b, 6.12a, 6.13b

Lessons:

  • Monday: Teacher Inservice
  • Tuesday: Subtracting Mixed Numbers.  Assignment is pg. 260 (8-21, 44-47).
  • Wednesday: Review of Add/Sub Fractions and Mixed Numbers.  Assignment is PzC49.
  • Thursday: Review over comparing, ordering, adding, subtracting fractions.  Give benchmark #3.  Assignment is Ch. 5B Review.
  • Friday: Test over fractions and mixed numbers. No homework.

Aug. 30-Sept. 3

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Overview:Students will use 5th grade knowledge to compare and order decimals in written and numeric form.  Reasonableness skills should be used in problem situations to judge sums, differences, products, and quotients of whole numbers.  With decimals, operations are limited to addition and subtraction.  Through real-life situations, students will classify numbers, including whole numbers, decimals, and integers.

Focus: Students will use their place value knowledge to solve real-life problems by performing various operations with decimals, such as converting metric units.

TEKS: 6.02b, 6.02c, 6.02e, 6.08d, 6.11a, 6.11d, 6.13b

Lessons:

  • Monday: Subtracting Decimals.  Assignment is Subtracting Decimals worksheet.
  • Tuesday: Multiplying Decimals.  Assignment is SP11-2 and WPP 11-2.
  • Wednesday: Dividing Whole Numbers.  These are dividing whole numbers but some answers are decimals, both terminating and repeating.  Homework is Division worksheet.
  • Thursday: Order of Operations.  Assignment is pg. 39 (2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16) and pg. 663 (1-15).
  • Friday: Integers. Assignment is pg. 123 (8-19, 22-27, 32, 34) and pg. 667 (1-10)

Aug. 23-27

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Overview: Students will use 5th grade knowledge to compare and order decimals in written and numeric form. Reasonableness skills should be used in problem situations to judge sums, differences, products, and quotients of whole numbers. With decimals, operations are limited to addition and subtraction. Through real-life situations, students will classify numbers, including whole numbers, decimals, and integers.

Focus: Students will integrate decimals into their previous knowledge of ordering and comparing numbers.  Using prior knowledge of place value, they will also round decimal numbers.

TEKS: 6.01a, 6.02b, 6.02d, 6.11a

Lessons:

  • Monday: 1st Day of School.  Go over policies & procedures, pick up supplies
  • Tuesday: Writing and Modeling Decimals.  Assignment is Writing Decimal packet.
  • Wednesday: Comparing and Ordering Decimals.  Assignment is R/P 3-3.
  • Thursday: Rounding and Estimating Data.  Assignment is R/P 3-6.
  • Friday: Adding Decimals.  Assignment is Pz B-29.