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Welcome to 6th Grade Advanced Math
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Homework
...for 6th Grade Advanced Math, First Period, Mrs. Nettling's Class
March 18, 2007
Achievement Test Countdown: 5 more
school weeks!
Tuesday tutoring. I will continue
to provide math tutoring for my students after school in my classroom at
the Intermediate on Tuesdays from 2:35 until 3:30. In order to attend
this tutoring, students must be current on homework, and parents must
provide a permission slip stating who is going to pick the student up
plus parent signature, date, and phone number where the parent can be
reached at that time.
Pi(e) Day. We learned a lot about measuring circles, we ate
circle treats, Alex won "best PI t-shirt," and Scott won the PI decimal
contest, reciting 29 digits of PI (beyond the 3.14).
Stock Market Game.
Our
rankings in the game went up and down, just like the value of stocks
this week! Our teams who invested in Google watched their numbers do a
nosedive. Google's newly purchased YouTube is being sued by Viacom for
billions of dollars, and Google stock was negatively impacted by this
news. In the past, Google has been a popular stock with my students,
historically earning them great returns. Ouch!
Show your work!
Students are showing their work more often and more completely. Students
are also writing better number models to show how they are setting up
their problem-solving. I am really pleased with how your children
responded to the request about showing their work on math problems. The
work and the accuracy of the answers have both shown tremendous
improvement. Let's keep up the good work!
Underline and circle key words in the
directions. The next biggest issue for us to address is reading
mistakes that occur while doing math. Sometimes a question asks for
the total amount of the cost, sometimes the discount, sometimes the
change after all that is calculated and you pay with a 20-dollar
bill! Sometimes a question will ask which of the following are NOT
an answer, or please put these in the order from greatest to least.
Because reading these questions is so important, I ask my students
to read the directions twice (RTD2) and to underline/circle key
words in the directions that tell them what to do. To get in this
good habit, I expect students to underline/circle directions on
their homework and daily assignment pages, too.
Homework. I have posted the math
homework leading up to spring break. I realize 6th Grade Camp is
going to come up for most of my students, and I will work
with each student to create a flexible plan so that we can
all continue to enjoy math while still pursuing high goals for
achievement. That may mean modifications to the posted assignments.
Homework..
Math Lessons:
Volumes, Areas, Perimeters. Chapter 10, our current chapter of
study, is about finding measures of geometric shapes. This year there is
more emphasis on circular and irregular shapes from what students
experienced in 5th grade. You find the volume of a prism or cylinder
using the formula Volume = Area of the Base x Height. Notice in the
example below how the calculations are completed one at a time, giving a
clear path for going back and checking:
Explanation
and Graphics by "Math.com"
Spring Break and weekend opportunities.
If the weather is not cooperating and your child is looking for a
something to do, there are many fun sites that help students stay in
touch with math (without feeling like they are "working!"). They can
also help those students who might still be working to memorize those last
few stubborn math facts. Link resources:
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