Category Archives: 6.11d

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Feb. 7 – 11

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Overview: Students will use 5th grade prior knowledge to estimate and find exact measurements using appropriate tools. (angles, perimeter, area, volume, time, temperature)  Using their knowledge of ratios and proportions, measurement units will be converted within the customary and metric systems.

Focus: Students will use prior knowledge to estimate the measurement of angles, perimeter, area, volume,  and circumference.  Students will also apply their knowledge of basic measurement to explore the relationships between the radius, diameter, and circumference of a circle.

TEKS: 6.6(C), 6.8(A), 6.11(A), 6.11(D), 6.12(A)

Lessons:

  • Monday: Area of Trapezoids.  Assignment is PzD-58.
  • Tuesday: Review for 4th 6 weeks test.  Assignment is Review packet.
  • Wednesday: 4th 6 weeks test.  No assignment.
  • Thursday: Investigating Circles.  Assignment is P8-10.  Powerpoint notes in spiral.
  • Friday: Circumference of Circles.  Assignment is Finding Circumference worksheet.  Powerpoint notes in spiral.

    Nov. 29 – Dec. 3

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    Overview: Students will model and use percents in real-life situations.  Connect the understanding of the relationships between fractions and decimals and apply that knowledge to percentages and the conversions between these different forms of rational numbers. 

    Focus: Students will apply their understanding of the relationships between fractions and decimals to percentages and the converisons between these different forms of rational numbers.

    TEKS: 6.1(A), 6.12(b), 6.11(d)

    Lessons:

    • Monday: Review of all conversions. Assignment is Review 27 & 50.
    • Tuesday: Compare and order fractions, decimals, and percents.
    • Wednesday: Cumulative Review.  Work together.  No assignment.
    • Thursday: Cumulative Benchmark #5.  No assignment
    • Friday: Finish Benchmark

    Nov 15-19

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    Overview: Students will model and use percents in real-life situations.  Connect the understanding of the relationships between fractions and decimals and apply that knowledge to percentages and the conversions between these different forms of rational numbers.  Students will use their knowledge of percents to analyze and display data in a circle graph.

    Focus: Students will use their prior knowledge of fractions and decimals to make a connection between the models of fractions, decimals, and percents.

    TEKS: 6.03(B), 6.11(C), 6.11(D)

    Lessons:

    • Monday: Work on Semester Project. Assignment is to work on project at home.
    • Tuesday: Work on Semester Project. Assignment is to work on project at home.
    • Wednesday: Modeling Percents.  Assignment is R7-6.  Also, notes handout skills review 10-8.  Also give Fractions to Decimals Quiz.
    • Thursday: Project Due for bonus points. Converting Fractions and Decimals to Percents.  Assignment is Pg. 328 (20-33) and pg. 339 (24-33, 50-53)   Give 1/2 sheet notes handout.
    • Friday: Project Due!!Converting Percents to Fractions and Decimals.  Assignment is pg. 328 (12-19, 36, 41) and pg. 339 (14-23, 35-37)

    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.

    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)