Category Archives: 6.11b

use a problem-solving model that incorporates understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness

Oct. 25-Oct. 29

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Overview:Students will use prior knowledge of equivalent fractions in the introduction of ratios and proportions.  Students will use models and tables to identify proportional relationships in various situations, using 5th grade prior knowledge of basic perimeter and area of geometric figures.  Missing information will be found using proportions.

Focus: Students will be able to set up and identify proportions and solve for missing information.

TEKS: 6.02(C), 6.08(D), 6.03(C), 6.11(B), 6.13(A), 6.13(B)

Lessons:

  • Monday:Scale Drawings.  Assignment is P7-5.  Use map of hometown and find various distances as notes.  Will need rulers.  Discuss and do notes over cross multiplying.
  • Tuesday: Similar Figures.  Assignment is Pz E-12.  Be sure to discuss what similar figures are (same shape but not necessarily the same size).  Notes handout.
  • Wednesday: Proportion Word Problems.  Assignment is Proportions Predicting Outcomes.  They must have work for every problem.
  • Thursday: Customary Unit Conversions.  Assignment is Pg. 681 (Lesson 8-1 20-25, Lesson 8-2 1-15).  Will need math chart.
  • Friday:Proportion TAKS Review.  Give Benchmark #4.  Assignment will be a proportion TAKS review packet.  They must have work for every problem.

Oct. 18- Oct. 22

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Overview:Students will use prior knowledge of equivalent fractions in the introduction of ratios and proportions.  Students will use models and tables to identify proportional relationships in various situations, using 5th grade prior knowledge of basic perimeter and area of geometric figures.  Missing information will be found using proportions.

Focus: Students will use prior knowledge of equivalent fractions in the exploration of ratios and proportions.

TEKS: 6.03(A), 6.03(B), 6.11(A), 6.11(B), 6.12(A), 6.12(B)

Lessons:

  • Monday: Review of fractions and mixed number’s. Assignment is TAKS review packet. Must show work on ALL problems.
  • Tuesday: Ratios.  Assignment is P7-1.  Emphasize writing the ratios in the right order.
  • Wednesday: Simplifying Ratios and Unit Rate.  Assignment is E-8.  Work out unit rate by setting up a fraction and reducing.
  • Thursday: Solving Proportions.  Assignment is P7-3.  No cross multiplying – either use equivalent fractions or reduce and then make equivalent fractions.  Notes Handout.
  • Friday: Proportion Application.  Assignment is Pg. 296 (4-7, 16,28, 42).  No cross multiplying.  Make sure proportions are labeled.

Oct. 4-Oct. 8

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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 be able to integrate their knowledge of equivalent fractions to the comparing and ordering of fractions and to the modeling of equivalent fractions to find their sums and differences.

TEKS: 6.01a, 6.02a, 6.11b, 6.11c, 6.12b

Lessons:

  • Monday: Comparing Fractions.  Assignment is Comparing Fractions wksht.   Notes Handout (Mimio Lesson) Make sure they change all fractions to equivalent fractions.
  • Tuesday: Ordering Fractions.  Assignment is Order Fractions wksht.
  • Wednesday: Modeling Add/Sub of Fractions.  Assignment is Fractions Models wksht.  Go over examples using fraction circles and also examples drawing the rectangle pictures on grid paper.
  • Thursday: Add/Sub of Fractions.  Assignment is P6-3.  Also, give 6-3 class notes handout and do extra examples in the spiral.
  • Friday: Addition of Mixed Numbers.  Assignment is C-44.

Sept. 27-Oct. 1

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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: Extending their knowledge of greatest common factors and least common multiples, students will generate equivalent forms of fractions.

TEKS: 6.01b, 6.11b, 6.11c

Lessons:

  • Monday: Review over models, GCF, LCM, exponents, prime factorization, and simplifying.  Also, give fraction model quiz, fractions must be reduced on #1-8.
  • Tuesday: Test over the above.  No assignment
  • Wednesday: Equivalent Fractions. Assignment is pg. 185 (10-17, 40-42) and pg. 670 (1-12)
  • Thursday: Converting from Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions.  Assignment is pg. 189 (1-4, 8-15, 36-42)
  • Friday: Converting from Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers.  Assignment is pg. 189 (5-7, 18-25, 34-35).  Also, give Mixed # quiz.

Sept 20-24

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Overview: Prior knowledge of multiplication and division skills and classification of numbers will be used to identify factors and multiples of numbers, including Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple.  Prime factorization of numbers will be found and expressed using exponents.

Focus: Using their knowledge of factors, students will be able to identify the greatest common factor of a given set of numbers.

TEKS: 6.01e, 6.11a, 6.11b, 6.11c

Lessons:

  • Monday:Review of GCF and Prime Factorization.  Assignment is GCF and Prime Factorization Review worksheet.  Must show work for each problem.  Also, give overhead quiz from GCF and exponents.
  • Tuesday: Least Common Multiple.  Show by listing out the multiples.  Assignment is Pg. 671 (10-27 but not #22)
  • Wednesday: 1st 6 Weeks Exam.  No homework.
  • Thursday: Modeling Fractions.  Assignment is R5-4, w/o reducing, except on answers that reduce to 1/2.  Also, do fraction hunt.
  • Friday: Simplifying Fractions.  Assignment is Simplest Form worksheet.  Make them show what they divide by on top and bottom.  Also, give 2nd benchmark.

Sept. 13-17

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Overview: Prior knowledge of multiplication and division skills and classification of numbers will be used to identify factors and multiples of numbers, including Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple.  Prime factorization of numbers will be found and expressed using exponents.

Focus: The students’ prior knowledge of prime and composite numbers will be used to express a number as the product of its prime factors, using exponents when necessary.

TEKS: 6.01d, 6.01e, 6.11b, 6.11c, 6.11d

Lessons:

  • Monday: Universal Screening. No Assignment.
  • Tuesday: Factors.  Assignment is Factor Towers worsheets A&B.
  • Wednesday: Exponents.  Assignment is pg. 34 (1-6, 10-25, 35-37, 41, 42, 49-57)
  • Thursday: Prime Factorization.  Assignment is Pg. 35 (26-33, 48) and pg. 662 (22-29).  Show using upside-down division.
  • Friday: Greatest Common Factor. Assignment is Pg. 177(3-6) Solve by listing and Pg. 662 (10-24) Solve by using upside-down division.

Sept. 7-10

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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: Using basic operations, students will be able to simplify  number expressions by applying the correct order of operations, incorporating the addition or subtraction of decimals.  Furthermore, through discovery, students will extend the number line to include the set of integers.

TEKS: 6.01c, 6.02e, 6.11b, 6.12b

Lessons:

  • Monday: Labor Day Holiday
  • Tuesday: Modeling Integers.  Assignment is R10-2. Order of Operations Quiz.
  • Wednesday: Decimal Review and Benchmark 1. Assignment is to finish Review.
  • Thursday: Decimal Test. No assignment.
  • Friday: Universal Screening. No assignment.