Create a Graph, Pro Con

Website from today's 6th Grade Learning Log Meeting...

Link: Create a Graph

Great tool for creating graphs you need, such as to display student data, or you can use this site when teaching graphing as well.

Another item from the 6th Grade meetings:

Link: ProCon.org - For reading skills...

Instructional Guidance from the DOE

This is a very important document from the DOE. It takes each current Indiana College and Career Readiness Standard and lets you know how important that standard is for the coming ISTEP test.

6th Grade: (Page 6)

7th Grade: (Page 7)

8th Grade: (Page 8)

See the entire document here.

NCTM Problem

Here is a link to a PDF copy of that NCTM problem I send out earlier this week in e-mail.

6th Grade Math - 1A

Here are the standards for 6th Grade 1A:

6.NS.1: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge).  Use positive and negative numbers to represent and compare quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

• Idea: Number line activity. Prepare numbers on post-its and have the students place the numbers on a number line. Remember, it is the mathematical discussion that takes place that provides learning and understanding. Allow mistakes, and use them to promote discussion.
• Idea: Place numbers on construction paper from -10 to +10. Have students take turns do problems by coming up to the line and physically moving. Example. 3 - 7 = x. Student goes to the number 3 and moves 7 spaces to the left to arrive at an answer of x = -4. Students at seats could have a smaller number line copied and follow along with their fingers. Adding movement activates more of the brain, increasing retention!

6.NS.2: Understand the integer number system.  Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself (e.g., –(–3) = 3), and that 0 is its own opposite. 

6.NS.8: Interpret, model, and use ratios to show the relative sizes of two quantities.  Describe how a ratio shows the relationship between two quantities.  Use the following notations: a/b, a to b, a:b.

• Idea: Bar models are great for solving ratio and showing the relationship between quantities.

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Site of the Week

Sometimes the best sites are ones that are by teachers in the trenches. This site is from a 6th Grade Math teacher. If you look at what she is dealing with right now, a lot of it has to do with variables.

Here is the site: http://cindywhitebcms.blogspot.com/

Hope you find something useful!

Success Time - Ratios

More ideas for week 3 (Bar Models and Tables lessons) (Click here for PDF)

Keep in mind that our standard is 6.1.6, "Use models to represent ratios"

Fractions are another model that represents ratios. And clocks are a great way to represent fractions!

 

Topic 2 - Review (6th Grade)

Here is a review based on the quiz questions for Topic 2. There is a slight "hiccup" around the 23 minute mark, where the audio is gone, but you can still pause the video and show the diagram to explain that rate is a function of both hours and dollars.

So the lesson I have learned here is break down the video into parts so that an error at the end does not require a complete restart!

Using Tables to Solve Rate and Ratio Problems

Here is about a 9 minute clip (created using the Educreations free app) helping students solve rate and ratio problems using tables.



 Also, here is a link to Rate as a Function of Slope.

Agile Mind - Alignment with 8-Step Calendar

Download a PDF file here.