Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Mathematics

Grade: 6

Content Standard: A. Numbers and Number Sense:
Students will understand and demonstrate a sense of what numbers mean and how they are used.
Common Assessment(s): Assessed in Grade 7
MAP Task, How We Commute

Performance Indicators 

Students will be able to:

Essential Elements

(Specific grade level learning objectives)

Suggested
Performance Activities
Suggested
Classroom
Assessments
Vocabulary

1. Use numbers in a variety of equivalent and interchangeable forms (e.g., integer, fraction, decimal, percent, exponential, and scientific notation) in problem-solving.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals through the ten-thousandths in problem -solving.

Have an understanding of concrete models of fractions and decimals.

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Instructional activities from Unit 3 of Glencoe:

Lab Activity& Modeling Decimals& Unit 3 in Glencoe.

Exponents: Unit 4-2 of Glencoe

Writing decimals as fractions..Unit 6-10 of Glencoe.

Writing fractions as decimals&unit 6-11 of Glencoe.

Various hands-on activities built within the lab activities.

Chapter 3 Performance Assessment from Performance Assessments, p.5, Glencoe (for decimals and fractions)

explore,
plan,
solve,
examine,
clustering
rounding,
estimating.

2. Demonstrate understanding of the relationships among the basic arithmetic operations on different types of numbers.

Order of Operations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and parenthesis.

Comparing and ordering whole numbers, decimals, and fractions through the ten-thousandths.

 Units 3 through 8 in Glencoe

 

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Units 3 through 8 Chapter Tests from Glencoe.

Place value, order of operations.

4. Represent numerical relationships in graphs, tables, and charts.

Organize a set of data in a frequency table.

Create an appropriate bar, line, or circle graph for a set of data.

Make predictions from line graphs.

Unit 2 of Glencoe

Unit 2 Performance Assessment from Performance Assessments , p.3, Glencoe.

Bar graph, circle graph, line graph, frequency table, vertical axis, horizontal axis.