2009-2010
6th grade MATH (revised July 13, 2009)
1st 9 WEEKS
Week 1
1. Basic math skill review week.
2. How can you transform numbers from one form to another (fractions, decimals, percents, and mixed numbers)? SPI 0606.2.5
Week 2
3. How can you select the representation that models one of the arithmetic properties (commutative, associative, or distributive)? SPI 0606.1.4
4. How can you use order of operations and parentheses to simplify expressions and solve problems? SPI 0606.3.2
Week 3
6. How can you translate between verbal expressions/sentences and algebraic expressions/equations? SPI 0606.3.5
7. How do you write equations that correspond to given situations or represent a given mathematical relationship? SPI 0606.3.3
Week 4
8. How can you model algebraic expressions using algebra tiles? SPI 0606.1.5
9. How do you rewrite expressions to represent quantities in different ways? SPI 0606.3.4
Mid Benchmark Test
Week 5
10. How do you represent the solution of a linear inequality on a number line? SPI 0606.3.1
Week 6
11. How do you solve two-step linear equations using number sense, properties, and inverse operations?
SPI 0606.3.6
Week 7
12. How do you identify features of graphs that may be misleading? SPI 0606.5.2
13. How can you determine whether or not a sample is biased? SPI 0606.5.3
14. How do you make conjectures and predictions based on data? SPI 0606.1.1
Week 8
5. How do you use concrete, pictorial, and symbolic representation for integers? SPI 0606.1.3
15. How do you locate positive rational numbers on a number line? SPI 0606.2.7
16. How do you locate integers on a number line? SPI 0606.2.8
Week 9
Review and extension as needed.
BENCHMARK TEST 9/14-18
Fall Break October 5-16, 2009
Second 9 Weeks
Week 1
1. How do you calculate with circumferences and areas of circles? SPI 0606.4.4
Week 2
2. How do you identify, define or describe geometric shapes given a visual representation or a written description of its properties? SPI 0606.4.1
Week 3
3. How can you find a missing angle measure in problems involving interior/exterior angles and/or their sums? SPI 0606.4.2
4.How can you solve problems using the Triangle Inequality Theorem? SPI 0606.4.3
Week 4
5.How can you determine the surface area and volume of prisms, pyramids and cylinders? SPI 0606.4.5
6. How can you find the volume of the related cylinder/prism when given the volume of a cone/pyramid or vice versa? SPI 0606.4.6
Mid Benchmark Test
Week 5
7. How do you solve problems involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals? SPI 0606.2.3
Week 6
Review week – Thanksgiving Break.
Week 7
8. How do you solve problems involving the multiplication and division of fractions? SPI 0606.2.1
9. How can you judge the reasonableness of the results of rational number estimates and / or computations? SPI 0606.1.2
Week 8
10. How do you solve problems involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of mixed numbers? SPI 0606.2.2
11. How can you solve multi-step arithmetic problems using fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals? SPI 0606.2.4
Week 9
Review and extension as needed.
Benchmark Test December 7 – 11, 2009
Christmas Break December 21 – January 5, 2010
3rd 9 Weeks
Week 1
1. How can you use algebraic expressions and properties to analyze numeric and geometric patterns? SPI 0606.3.7
2. How do you graph ordered pairs of integers in all four quadrants of the Cartesian coordinate system? SPI 0606.3.9
Week 2
3. How can you select the qualitative graph that models a contextual situation? (e.g., water filling then draining from a bathtub). SPI 0606.3.8
4. How can you solve problems involving ratios, rates, and percents? SPI 0606.2.6
Week 3
5. How can you determine the theoretical probability of simple and compound events in familiar context? SPI 0606.5.1
Mid Benchmark Test