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Weekly Work: Contracts


6th Grade Math Contracts

 

Students are given contracts on Monday (Tuesday, if Monday is a holiday).  The activities are explained during Direct Instruction.  Students have more than an hour each day to get the assignments finished.  Should an assignment not be finished in class, students are expected to take the work home to be finished that night.  The next day, we check finished work and continue to grow as we learn new skills.  Use the link to view the contracts.  If your student loses the contract, feel free to print it from this .pdf file. 

 

 

Week

Link by   Date   

 

Notes 

1

9-4  During the first week of school, we are reviewing number value and place value to millions.  The students will receive a contract to follow.  All aspects of the contract will be explained in class.  Ask your child to explain how each part of the contract works. 

 2

9-10 MEAP prep--Vocabulary: Least Common Multiple (LCM), Greatest Common Factor (GCF), Numerator, Denominator, Fractions, Lowest Terms, and Equivalent Fractions.  Students work on divisibility of numbers, prime numbers, and composite numbers.

 3

9-17  MEAP prep--Comparing and Ordering Fractions, Equivalent Fractions

4

9-24  MEAP Toolkits--Adding and subtracting fractions , Equivalent Fractions

5

10-1  MEAP Toolkits--Multiplication of fractions. Introduction of improper fractions.

 6

10-8  MEAP Testing on Tuesday and Wednesday: Continue multiplication of fractions on Monday, Thursday, and Friday.  Review mixed fractions.

 7

10-15  MEAP Testing on Tuesday and Wednesday:  Continue work with mixed fractions on Monday, Thursday, and Friday.  I will review division of fractions on Friday. 

 8

10-22  Students convert fractions to decimals and back again. Review mixed fraction multiplication and division.  Look on Moodle for links to practice with these skills.  The District Assessment for Fractions is being given on Thursday, Oct. 25th.

 9

10-29  Students begin to add decimals.  They look at exponents and scientific notation.

10

11-5  (No school for students Monday, Nov.5th or Tuesday, Nov. 6th)  Students work with scientific notation that starts out as a decimal.  They review multiplication of decimals.

 11

11-12

Students work on multiplication and division of decimals.

 12

11-19  Because of Thanksgiving, we will have a 2-day contract.   No school 11-21.

 13

11-26  Review Scientific Notation and work on multiplication and division of decimals.  Note:  The district assessment will be given Thursday, Nov.29th.

 14

12-3

Begin Unit 3 Integers.  Students learn absolute value as well as adding negative numbers.  Addition and Subtraction of Integers Fact Sheet

 15

12-10  This week students subtract negative and positive numbers.

 16

12-17  Students will multiply and divide negative and positive numbers.

 

12-24  Winter Break from Dec. 24 through Jan. 7th, 2013)

 17

1-7  The students will review all operations in integers including absolute value and placing negative numbers on a number line.  The District Assessment will be given next Tuesday, Jan. 15th.  See Moodle for activities and answers to help review concepts.

 18

1-14  DA #3 Integers--Students finish the week looking at algebraic expressions and combining like terms.

 19

1-21

  Students begin Unit 4: Graphs, Expressions, and Equation Tables. This week students look at the meaning of variable, constant, expression, and equation.  We will also be reviewing the Coordinate Plane. 

 20

1-28 Students work with algebraic expressions to understand how an expression is written or simplified.  They continue graphing coordinates in the four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

 21

 2-4

 Students solve beginning equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  They make decisions about function tables (Moodle activities) as well.

 22

 2-11

 Students solve two-step equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

 23

 2-18

 24

 2-25 Students are working with the input/output chart to determine the equation used to reach the solutions given.

 25

 3-4  Students will review on Monday and Tuesday so that they will take the District Assessment for Algebra on Wednesday.  They will work on application of math concepts on Thursday.

 26

3-11 

 Students begin the 5th unit this year on Systems of Measurement and Formulas.  This week we will look at area of triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids.

 27

3-18  Students explore polyhedrons (and vocabulary), surface area, and volume.

 28

3-25  .Students are reviewing surface area and volume.  We begin conversions (inches to feet and so on).
4-1   Easter Vacation
 

 29

 4-8 We will review this unit's topics, and Wednesday, we will take the District Assessment on Surface Area, Volume, and Conversions.  Study Guides are in Moodle and on this link.

 30

 4-15

New Unit: Lines, Angles, and Transformations:  We are working with a protractor and compass to draw and bisect angles.  Students are learning to identify various angles.

 31

 4-22 The 6th grade students are exploring angles with new vocabulary: transversals, supplementary angles, complementary angles, vertex, exterior angles, interior angles.  They will be measuring angles this week, please send in a compass and a protractor.

 32

4-29 Students review translations and learn how to reflect polygons across given lines of symmetry.

 33

 5-6 Students practice the transformation called rotation and review reflections and translations.  Students will be ready to take the DA on 5-15.

 34

 5-13 We review transformations, angles, and vocabulary for the DA on Thursday, May 17th.

 35

 5-20  Students use cards and dice to discover the properties of probability.

 36

 5-27  Students graph probability information onto graphs and charts.

 37

 6-3  Students work with probability, rate, mean, median, range, and mode to review for District Assessment #7 to be given on Thursday, Jun. 7th.  See the DA section for the study guide.

 38

 6-10 This week students turn in all math books.

 39

  6-13  Friday is the last day of school.  Have a great summer!