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TITLE
Mathematics 6
TEXTBOOK
THE MATHEMATICS EXPERIENCE, Houghton-Mifflin, 1992
DESCRIPTION
Mathematics 6 is required for all sixth grade students and is part of the sixth
grade core curriculum. It meets three days per week for 68 minutes per session.
This program continues the 5th grade mathematics program and emphasizes the four
operations with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. Other areas covered
include numeration, place value, estimation, word problems, finding averages,
rounding, least common multiple, greatest common factor, Euclidean geometry,
mental math and metric measurement.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Students will correctly read, pronounce and round whole numbers to
hundred-millions place and decimals to hundred-thousandths place. (8.1.1)
2. Students will recognize and use elements of number theory such as prime and
composite numbers, factors and multiples, divisibility, powers, and properties.
(8.1.4)
3. Students will add add and subtract whole numbers to nine digits with and
without regrouping and understand the relationship between the operations.
(4.2.1)
4.. Students will compare the size of fractions with like and unlike
denominators.
5. Students will add, subtract, and compare decimals up to five decimal places.
(8.2.1)
6. Students will multiply any three-digit whole number by a three-digit number.
(4.2.1)
7. Students will multiply mixed numbers and decimals. (8.2.1)
8. Students will divide whole numbers by a three-digit divisor. (4.2.1)
9. Students will divide decimals with and without a decimal in the divisor.
(8.2.3)
10. Students will estimate solutions using whole numbers and decimals by
rounding. (4.2.2)
11. Students will identify, describe, compare, and classify geometric plane
figures such as polygons and circles; solid figures like prisms, cones, spheres,
pyramids, and cylinders, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel and
perpendicular lines. (8.4.1)
12. Students will understand and apply formulas to measure the area of a square,
rectangle, and triangle. (8.4.1)
13. Students will calculate area, perimeter, and volume of simple geometric
figures and be able to measure angles accurately.
14. Students will measure and calculate with customary and metric units to 1/16
of an inch and to nearest millimeter. (8.3.1)
15. Students will understand the geometric properties of congruence, similarity,
and symmetry.
16. Students will make their own tessellation by transforming a four-inch square
and using a slide.
17. Students will write and compute and solve one step problems using fractions,
decimals, and whole numbers. (8.2.1)
18. Students will use a calculator to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with
decimals. (8.2.3)
19. Students will identify the appropriate operation(s) and do the calculations
to solve word problems. (8.2.2)
20. Students will use problem-solving strategies to investigate and understand a
wide variety of problems.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Students will write original word problems
2. Students will write sentences to describe how they
solve problems.
3. Students will write sentences to describe errors seen in written
computations.
4. Students will discuss, read, and write about mathematical concepts covered.
5. Students will keep a journal in which they write a daily problem and its
solution.
MULTICULTURE ACTIVITIES
1. Activities are incorporated throughout the textbook as part of the
anticipatory set of each lesson.
2. The creation of tessellations will be related to origin of tiling in Islamic
art.
3. The contributions to mathematics of people of other cultures and times will
be explored.
