Math 6 Flex

Course Description

Math 6 flex topics cover the five domains in the California Core Curriculum Standards in a condensed manner:  Number Sense, Expressions and Equations, Proportional Reasoning, Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.  You will learn to use your skills of mathematical reasoning to solve rigorous math problems both individually and in a collaborative setting.

Math flex is a 6th grade class that will  cover all  6th grade standards and expose you to some 7th grade standards.  There will be opportunities during class to work on optional mathematical topics during a unit if you wish to stretch your learning.  To be successful in this class you will need to have good study habits and dedication.

PARENTS:  Please DO NOT have students work or read ahead in the CPM book!  It will not help them and only cause them to be bored in the classroom.  This is not like traditional textbooks where preparing ahead helps with the curriculum.  I really want them to be able to explore the math first hand with their table group each day as the curriculum is intended to do.

Assessment dates are announced in class and posted in HW section below.  Assessments are generally given every 2 weeks.

*How To read math homework problems assigned from the textbook:

# before "dash(-)" means the chapter, and #s after "dash(-)" mean problem numbers;   so #8-8 means chapter 8, problem 8

Daily Agenda and Homework Log

Week of March 16-20

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: 6.2.2 Area of a Rectangular Shape

✏️ Homework:  CC1 6.2.2 Problems 86-90

Tuesday

Field Trip

Wednesday- Friday

NWEA Math Testing

Week of March 9-13

Monday 

7th Readiness Placement Test

Tuesday

7/8 Algebra Readiness Test

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Fractions review

✏️ Homework: HW#51 Faceing Math Fractions edition

Thursday 

🗓️ Agenda: Rational and Irrational numbers

✏️ Homework: HW#52 Pi City in the Sky

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning; finish Pi City and Faceing Math

✏️ Homework: none

Week of March 2-6

Monday

🗓️ Agenda: 6.1.1 Fair Shares Mini-Posters

✏️ Homework: 6.1.1 Review and Preview questions (5-14)

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Dividing Fractions Notes

✏️ Homework: HW#49 Fractions Worksheet

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Review for Assess #12 on Friday

Thursday 

🗓️ Agenda: Bobo the Clown Problem Mini-poster

✏️ Homework: Study for Assessment 12

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment 12

✏️ Homework: none

Week of Feb 23-27

Monday

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #11 practice game

✏️ Homework: study for test tomorrow

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #11

✏️ Homework: none

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning; Unit 6 Playlist; #12 Review Sheet

✏️ Homework: none

Thursday 

🗓️ Agenda: Area of trapezoid

✏️ Homework: HW#47 Area of Trapezoid 

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Park Problem (5.3.4. 5-99)

✏️ Homework: none

Week of Feb 2-6

Monday

🗓️ Agenda: 5.4.1 Multiplying Mixed Numbers, CW- Anita's Bran Muffins

✏️ Homework: CC1: 5.1.4: #5-34 through 5-38

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Land Sections Tasks

✏️ Homework: #42 Land Section Tasks

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: study for Assess 10

Thursday 

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #10

✏️ Homework: none

Friday

Week of Jan. 26-30

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: "I've been framed!" CC1 4.1.3 classwork

✏️ Homework: HW#39 CC1 4.1.3. 4-36 through 39, 42,43 

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Assess #9

✏️ Homework: none

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Review Sheet #10; Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #10 due Mon. 2/2

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Using Variables to Solve Equations

✏️ Homework: Menu Math Worksheet

Friday

Week of Jan. 20-23

Monday 

MLK Day No School

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Scale Drawings

✏️ Homework: #36 Art Proportions Scale Drawing

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #9 (test on Tues. 1/27)

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Scale Drawings 4.1.2

✏️ Homework: HW#37 CC2 4.1.2: 4-14, 15, 16, 19, 20 (5 problems) 

Friday



Week of Jan. 12-16

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: CC2 3.2.1 Classwork

✏️ Homework: #34 CC2 3.2.1. #3-34, 35, 37, 38

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Converting Weight notes

✏️ Homework: #35 Converting Weight Practice Problems

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Study for Assessment #8

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #8

✏️ Homework: none

Friday

none 

Week of Jan. 5-9

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: Introduced Snowman Project

✏️ Homework: work on HW#32 Snowman Project (due Friday)

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Keep working on Snowman Project

✏️ Homework: work on HW#32 Snowman Project (due Friday)

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Given Review Sheet #8; Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #8 due Friday for checking

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: 3.2.5 Order of Operations - Tug of War! Game

✏️ Homework: HW#33 CC2 3.2.5 82 through 84, 86

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Check Review Sheet #8 answers; turn in Snowman Project; Winter Desmos activities 

✏️ Homework: none

Week of Dec 15-19

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: 2.2.1 Composing Integers Notes

✏️ Homework: #28 CC2  #2.2.1 2-36-41(6 problems!) 

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Repeating Decimals Notes (2.1.1) 

✏️ Homework: #29 Diamond math problems, Absolute Value, and Repeating Decimal Worksheet

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Repeating and Terminating Decimals (2.1.2)

✏️ Homework: #30 CC2 2.1.2 2-26, 27, 29, 30

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Order of Operations Notes

✏️ Homework: #31 Order of Operations 

Friday

Have a great break! 

Week of Dec 8-12

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: NWEA Testing Day 1

✏️ Homework: study for Assess #7 (Thurs. 12/11); Thanksgiving Dinner Project due Wed. (12/10)

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: NWEA Testing Day 2

✏️ Homework: study for Assess #7 (Thurs. 12/11); Thanksgiving Dinner Project due Wed. (12/10)

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: NWEA Testing Day 3

✏️ Homework: study for Assess #7 (tomorrow)

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #7

✏️ Homework: none

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Diamond Math Problems

✏️ Homework: none



Week of Dec 1-5

Monday 

🗓️ Agenda: Circle activity, worked on Ratios of Break Mini-Poster

✏️ Homework: HW#24 Ratios of Break Mini-Poster

Tuesday

🗓️ Agenda: Tax and Tip Notes

✏️ Homework: HW#25 Calculate your restaurant bill, including the tip and tax amount, Worksheet

Wednesday

🗓️ Agenda: Estimating with Percentage Notes

✏️ Homework: HW#26 Estimating with Percentage

Thursday

🗓️ Agenda: Thanksgiving Dinner! Decimal Problems involving Money. 

✏️ Homework: HW#27 Thanksgiving Dinner (due Wed. Dec. 10)

Friday

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning; Work on Review Sheet #7

✏️ Homework: study for Assessment #7 (Thurs., Dec. 11)

November 21

🗓️ Agenda: Desmos Pizza Problem

✏️ Homework: none! Enjoy your break! 🍗🥧

November 20

🗓️ Agenda: 4.2.4 Ratios in Other Situations classwork; Des-Farm Activity

✏️ Homework: Cookie Recipe (posted on Google Classroom) - copy the ratio table and show work in notebook

November 19

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning; Assessment #5 Reflection

✏️ Homework: none

November 18

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #6

✏️ Homework: none

November 17 

🗓️ Agenda: 3.1.6 Investigating Ratio notes and classwork

✏️ Homework: HW#21 Ratio Table Worksheet

November 14

🗓️ Agenda: Review Game

✏️ Homework: Assessment 6 Tuesday 11/18

November 13

🗓️ Agenda: GCF/LCM Notes

✏️ Homework: HW#21 GCF/LCM Worksheet

November 11

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning Day

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #6

November 7

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: none

November 6

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #5

✏️ Homework: Architecture Worksheet Due Friday

November 5

🗓️ Agenda: 3.1.5 classwork andnotes

✏️ Homework: complete architecture worksheet (due Friday)

November 4

🗓️ Agenda: Correct Review Sheet #5; Classwork notes on 3.1.3 and 3.1.4

✏️ Homework: #18: CC1 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 #3-46, 47, 51, 63, 66

November 3

🗓️ Agenda: Review Game for Assess #5

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet due tomorrow, Haunted House due Wed.; Assess #5 on Thurs.

October 31

👻 Agenda: Work on Haunted House Project; passed out Review Sheet #5

🎃 Homework: Review Sheet due Tuesday, Haunted House due Wed., Assess #5 on Thurs

October 30

🗓️ Agenda: Tape Diagram practice and Giant One Notes (3.2.1)

✏️ Homework: HW #17: Tape Diagram Worksheet

October 29

🗓️ Agenda: Passed back Assess #4; Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Haunted House Project Due Nov. 5

October 28

🗓️ Agenda: Coordinate Plane Notes

✏️ Homework: Haunted House Project Due Nov. 5; HW#16:Coordinate Plane Worksheet

October 27

🗓️ Agenda: Tape Diagram Notes

✏️ Homework: HW#14: CC1: 3.1.2 #3-33, 35

October 23

🗓️ Agenda: Brainteasers

✏️ Homework: none

October 22

🗓️ Agenda: Rounding Notes; Rounding Game

✏️ Homework: any unfinished game questions

October 21

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #4

✏️ Homework: none

October 20

🗓️ Agenda: 2.3.3 Generic Rectangles and GCF

✏️ Homework: study for Assessment #4 

October 17

🗓️ Agenda: 2.3.2 Multiplying Using Rectangles to Multiply Notes; CW: 2-55 and 2-56, 2-60 and 2-66

✏️ Homework: none

October 16

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning; Review Assessment #3

✏️ Homework: none

October 15

🗓️ Agenda: Correct review sheet #4; Staircase Game

✏️ Homework: none

October 14

🗓️ Agenda: Pass out Review Sheet #4; GCF notes

✏️ Homework: 

October 13

🗓️ Agenda: 2.2.3. Area and Perimeter (notes); Classwork 2-39 through 2-43

✏️ Homework: HW14: 2.2.3 #2-46, 2-47, 2-49, 2-50

October 10

🗓️ Agenda: 2.2.2 Square Units and Area of Rectangle Classwork; Area of a shape (notes)

✏️ Homework: any unfinished classwork

October 9

🗓️ Agenda: 2.2.1 Exploring Area Notes 

✏️ Homework: HW#13 CC1:2.2.1 # 2-24 through 2-28 

October 8

🗓️ Agenda: 2.2.1 Exploring Area Notes 

✏️ Homework: HW#13 CC1:2.2.1 # 2-24 through 2-28 

October 7

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment 3

✏️ Homework: Statistics Posters due Wednesday

October 6

🗓️ Agenda: Corrected Review Sheet #3, start Statistics Posters 

✏️ Homework: Assessment # 3 Tomorrow

October 3

🗓️ Agenda: Reviewed Assessment #2 and completed test reflection; Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #3 (Mon); Assess #3 (Tues)

October 2

🗓️ Agenda: 8.2.1 Statistics Project Day 1

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #3(Mon.); Assess #3 (Tues)

October 1

🗓️ Agenda: Statistical Question notes; Frequency Table

✏️ Homework: #12 Frequency Table and Histogram Practice

September 30

🗓️ Agenda: 8.1.5 Data Set Decisions

✏️ Homework: HW#11: [8.1.5] 8-66 a, b, c, 8-67, 8-68

September 29

🗓️ Agenda: Box Plot Coaching

✏️ Homework: HW#10: Box Plot Practice (just 2 problems in notebook)

September 25

🗓️ Agenda: Assess #2

✏️ Homework: none

September 24

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Assess #2 Thurs

September 23

🗓️ Agenda: Corrected Review Sheet #2 with Math Posters

✏️ Homework: Assess #2 on Thursday

September 19

🗓️ Agenda: Introduce Box Plots

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #2 due Tuesday, 9/22; Assessment #2 on Thursday, 9/25

September 18

🗓️ Agenda: 8.1.4 Class Notes; Mean,Median,Mode game

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #2 due Tuesday, 9/22; Assessment #2 on Thursday, 9/25

September 17

🗓️ Agenda: Personal Learning 

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet #2 due Tuesday 9/22

September 16

🗓️ Agenda: class notes on “how many shoes?” [Notes]

✏️ Homework: HW #9: dot plot and stem & leaf plot practice [Handout] (due Thursday)

September 15

🗓️ Agenda: Returned Assess #1; new vocabulary (notes)

✏️ Homework: HW#8: Try This! Problems 1-7 

September 12

🗓️ Agenda: The Power of Estimation - "How many Ketchup Packets" Desmo

✏️ Homework: none

September 11

🗓️ Agenda: corrected HW#6; Triple Venn Diagram Classwork

✏️ Homework: HW#7: Venn Diagram Worksheet 2; HINTS

September 10

🗓️ Agenda: Double Venn Diagram Class notes 

✏️ Homework: HW#6: Double Venn Diagram Worksheet; Hints

September 9

🗓️ Agenda: Assessment #1

✏️ Homework: none

September 8

🗓️ Agenda: Checked HW #5: Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Assessment #1 tomorrow!  

September 5

🗓️ Agenda: Corrected Review Sheet #1; Personal Learning

✏️ Homework: Assess #1 Next Tuesday

September 4

🗓️ Agenda: 2.1.2 Classnotes

✏️ Homework:  CC1 2.1.2 #2-15 through 2-17, 2-19 (4 problems) due Mon.

September 3

🗓️ Agenda: Review Sheet #1 given, 2.1.2 Stem and Leaf Notes

✏️ Homework: Review Sheet due Friday; Assessment #1 next Tuesday 9/9 

September 2

🗓️ Agenda: NWEA Testing Day 2

✏️ Homework: none

August 29

🗓️ Agenda: NWEA Diagnostics Day 1 of 2

✏️ Homework: none

August 28

🗓️ Agenda: review HW#4 answers; set up for NWEA testing tomorrow

✏️ Homework: none

August 27

🗓️ Agenda: Venn Diagram notes

✏️ Homework: #4: Venn Diagram Puzzle

August 26

Back to school Night! 

🗓️ Agenda: CC1 2.1.1 Dot Plots and Bar Graphs classnotes

✏️ Homework: none

August 25

🗓️ Agenda: CC1 2.1.1 Dot Plots and Bar Graphs classnotes

✏️ Homework: none

August 25

🗓️ Agenda: Review HW#3 Answers; Personal Learning Introduction

✏️ Homework: finish PL activity by Wednesday

August 22

🗓️ Agenda: Checked Prime Factorization worksheet; 1.1.4 Jumping Frog Jubilee (1-24)

✏️ Homework: #3 1.1.4 (1-25, 1-29 through 1-31)

August 21

🗓️ Agenda: Finalize 1-16 posters; Prime Factorization review and practice

✏️ Homework: #2 Prime Factorization Riddle Worksheet (2 sides)

August 20

🗓️ Agenda: HW #1 Answers Check; Con't 1-16 posters

✏️ Homework: none

August 19

🗓️ Agenda: Warm up, review Math Journal Guidelines, CC1.1.3 How Does it grow? (1-15, 16)

✏️ Homework: HW #1(1-19, 20)

August 18

🗓️ Agenda: Collect book contracts; Birthday Histogram

✏️ Homework: bring signed book contracts back

August 16

🗓️ Agenda: Get to know you activities; Passed out Textbooks and Book Contracts; Graph of Me

✏️ Homework: Book Contracts due Monday; Review 6th Grade Program letter and start purchasing supplies

August 15

🗓️ Agenda: Welcome to 6th Grade, Room 9! 

✏️ Homework: Review 6th Grade Welcome Letter with your family