Homework and Announcements
10/28/2019
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Math 6 This week we will continue working through the final sections of Comparing Bits and Pieces. We are looking to close out this unit with a unit test either late next week, or the week after. Your only homework is MathXL unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. No tests or quizzes this week. Math 6 - Topics Covered this week Over the course of this unit, your student has learned to use the language of ratios and to work with ratios using representations like diagrams and double number lines. In the final sections of the unit, they use tables to organize equivalent ratios. Double number lines are hard to use in problems with large amounts. Let’s think about an example we saw before: the 6th grade class is selling raffle tickets at a price of $6 for 5 tickets. If we tried to extend the double number line below to represent the price of 300 raffle tickets, it would take 5 times more paper! A table is a better choice to represent this situation. Tables of equivalent ratios are useful because you can arrange the rows in any order. Although students can choose any representation that helps them solve a problem, it is important that they get comfortable with tables because they are used for a variety of purposes throughout high school and college mathematics courses. Here is a task to try with your student: At a constant speed, a train travels 45 miles in 60 minutes. At this rate, how far does the train travel in 12 minutes? If you get stuck, consider creating a table. Solution: 9 miles. (source: Open Up Resources) Math 7 This week we will begin a unit on ratios and proportions. If you recall, we left Comparing and Scaling unfinished to earlier this trimester. We are going back to revisit and elaborate on that material. This is a GREAT chance for you to improve your quiz scores from those sections. If you attain higher scores in the upcoming quizzes, I will gladly honor some score replacements and I will announce that opportunity when it comes up. Your homework is MathXL. No tests or quizzes this week. Math 7 - Topics Covered this weekThis week your student will learn about proportional relationships. This builds on the work they did with equivalent ratios in grade 6. For example, a recipe says “for every 5 cups of grape juice, mix in 2 cups of peach juice.” We can make different-sized batches of this recipe that will taste the same. The amounts of grape juice and peach juice in each of these batches form equivalent ratios. The relationship between the quantities of grape juice and peach juice is a proportional relationship. In a table of a proportional relationship, there is always some number that you can multiply by the number in the first column to get the number in the second column for any row. This number is called the constant of proportionality. In the fruit juice example, the constant of proportionality is 0.4. There are 0.4 cups of peach juice per cup of grape juice. Here is a task you can try with your student: Using the recipe “for every 5 cups of grape juice, mix in 2 cups of peach juice”
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Homework and Announcements
10/21/2019
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Math 6 This week we will begin working through the second section of Comparing Bits and Pieces. Your only homework is MathXL unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. No tests or quizzes this week. Math 6 - Topics Covered this week There are different ways to represent ratios. Let’s say the 6th grade class is selling raffle tickets at a price of $6 for 5 tickets. Some students may use diagrams with shapes to represent the situation. However, drawing so many shapes becomes impractical. Double number line diagrams are easier to work with and we will begin working with these this week. Here is a task to try with your student: Raffle tickets cost $6 for 5 tickets.
Math 7 This week we will be reviewing and testing on Stretching and Shrinking. Your homework is MathXL and the review worksheets I assign on Monday and Tuesday. These SHOULD be completed in class, but they will come home for study purposes. Homework and Announcements
10/14/2019
Here is a brief overview of the week ahead:
Math 6 This week we will continue working through the first section of our new unit - Comparing Bits and Pieces. Your only homework is MathXL unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. We will be ending the week with a quiz. Math 6 - Topics Covered this week There are different ways to represent ratios. Let’s say the 6th grade class is selling raffle tickets at a price of $6 for 5 tickets. Some students may use diagrams with shapes to represent the situation. However, drawing so many shapes becomes impractical. Double number line diagrams are easier to work with and we will begin working with these this week. Here is a task to try with your student: Raffle tickets cost $6 for 5 tickets.
Math 7 This week will be a pretty calm week as we continue working through the final section of the Stretching and Shrinking chapter. I have included the overview of this section below. We will be taking the unit test next week. Your only homework is MathXL this week unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. Math 7 - Topics Covered this Week This week your student will be learning about scale drawings. A scale drawing is a two-dimensional representation of an actual object or place. Maps and floor plans are some examples of scale drawings. The scale tells us what some length on the scale drawing represents in actual length. For example, a scale of “1 inch to 5 miles” means that 1 inch on the drawing represents 5 actual miles. If the drawing shows a road that is 2 inches long, we know the road is actually 2⋅5, or 10 miles long. Scales can be written with units (e.g. 1 inch to 5 miles), or without units (e.g., 1 to 50, or 1 to 400). When a scale does not have units, the same unit is used for distances on the scale drawing and actual distances. For example, a scale of “1 to 50” means 1 centimeter on the drawing represents 50 actual centimeters,1 inch represents 50 inches, etc. Here is a task to try with your student: Kiran drew a floor plan of his classroom using the scale 1 inch to 6 feet.
(source: Open Up Resources) Homework and Announcements
10/7/2019
Here is a brief overview of the week ahead:
Math 6 This week we will continue working through the first section of our new unit - Comparing Bits and Pieces. Your only homework is MathXL unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. Math 6 - Topics Covered this week There are different ways to represent ratios. Let’s say the 6th grade class is selling raffle tickets at a price of $6 for 5 tickets. Some students may use diagrams with shapes to represent the situation. However, drawing so many shapes becomes impractical. Double number line diagrams are easier to work with and we will begin working with these this week. Here is a task to try with your student: Raffle tickets cost $6 for 5 tickets.
Math 7 This week will be a pretty calm week as we continue working through the next section of the Stretching and Shrinking chapter. I have included the overview of this section below. Your only homework is MathXL this week unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. Math 7 - Topics Covered this Week This week your student will be learning about scale drawings. A scale drawing is a two-dimensional representation of an actual object or place. Maps and floor plans are some examples of scale drawings. The scale tells us what some length on the scale drawing represents in actual length. For example, a scale of “1 inch to 5 miles” means that 1 inch on the drawing represents 5 actual miles. If the drawing shows a road that is 2 inches long, we know the road is actually 2⋅5, or 10 miles long. Scales can be written with units (e.g. 1 inch to 5 miles), or without units (e.g., 1 to 50, or 1 to 400). When a scale does not have units, the same unit is used for distances on the scale drawing and actual distances. For example, a scale of “1 to 50” means 1 centimeter on the drawing represents 50 actual centimeters,1 inch represents 50 inches, etc. Here is a task to try with your student: Kiran drew a floor plan of his classroom using the scale 1 inch to 6 feet.
(source: Open Up Resources) Homework and Announcements
10/1/2019
Happy Tuesday! I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. Here is a brief overview of the week ahead:
Math 6 Great job on the Prime Time tests last week! You should see the scores show up in Q sometime over the next couple of days. I typically allow enough time for each student to review their test and bring their test letters home before I post scores. Please ask your child to show you the test letter if they haven't already done so. If your child took the taste late, they will not have this letter yet. This week will be pretty calm. We are starting a new chapter - Comparing Bits and Pieces - and we will be taking the first sections slowly. Your only homework is MathXL this week unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. Math 6 - Topics Covered this week A ratio is an association between two or more quantities. For example, say we have a drink recipe made with cups of juice and cups of soda water. Ratios can be represented with diagrams. Here are some correct ways to describe a ratio:
The ratios 6:4, 3:2, and 12:8 are equivalent because each ratio of juice to soda water would make a drink that tastes the same. Here is a task to try with your student: There are 4 horses in a stall. Each horse has 4 legs, 1 tail, and 2 ears.
Math 7 This week, we will be wrapping up the first section of our Stretching and Shrinking unit. We will be ending the week with a quiz on the first 6 lessons in this unit. I've included the summary of the section in this post again as it is a general overview of what will be covered on the quiz. Your only homework is MathXL this week unless you need to take home an in-class assignment to be completed on your own. It is essential that you keep up with the class work assigned, or you will not be able to keep up with the concepts covered. Math 7 - Topics Covered this Week This week your student will learn about scaling shapes. An image is a scaled copy of the original if the shape is stretched in a way that does not distort it. In each scaled copy, the sides are a certain number of times as long as the corresponding sides in the original. We call this number the scale factor. The size of the scale factor affects the size of the copy. A scale factor greater than 1 makes a copy that is larger than the original. A scale factor less than 1 makes a copy that is smaller. (source: Open Up Resources) |