Anchor 6th Grade Math
No live meetings for this class
Class Details:
***No live meetings for this class
Class Fees are $10 or 100 points per semester.
Grade 6 begins with a unit on reasoning about area and understanding and applying concepts of surface area. It is common to begin the year by reviewing the arithmetic learned in previous grades, but starting instead with a mathematical idea that students haven’t seen before sets up opportunities for students to surprise the teacher and themselves with the connections they make. Instead of front-loading review and practice from prior grades, these materials incorporate opportunities to practice elementary arithmetic concepts and skills through warm-ups, in the context of instructional tasks, and in practice problems as they are reinforcing the concepts they are learning throughout the units. An important skill students develop in 6th grade is the ability to make connections between ideas and generalize what they have learned to reinforce algebraic thinking. Students will build a strong mathematical vocabulary as they explore new concepts such as ratios, rates, percentages, and statistics.
Students will work through the following units:
Area and Surface Area
Introducing Ratios
Unit Rates and Percentages
Dividing Fractions
Arithmetic in Base Ten
Expressions and Equations
Rational Numbers
Data Sets and Distributions
Putting it all together
Materials: Connecting cubes, ½-inch cubes, ¼ -inch graph paper, base-ten blocks, counters, colored pencils, Cuisenaire rods, playing cards, nets, four-function calculators, inch cubes, index cards, measuring tape, meter stick, pattern blocks, polyhedra, tangrams, ruler, scissors
Access to the printer for lessons and extra pages linked in lessons
Geometry toolkits: tracing paper, graph paper, colored pencils, scissors, and an index card for a straightedge or marking right angles.
Graphing technology: Examples include a handheld graphing calculator, a computer with a graphing calculator application installed, and an internet-enabled device with access to a site like desmos.com/calculator or geogebra.org/graphing. For students using the digital materials, a separate graphing calculator tool isn't necessary; interactive applets are embedded throughout, and a graphing calculator tool is accessible on the student digital toolkit page.
Students will turn in 8 required assessments per semester. These required assessments alternate between investigating grade-level concepts by choosing an assignment from a choice board and turning in a curriculum check-in. Each choice board offers both online and pencil-and-paper options. The curriculum check-ins will be graded based on each student's progress in their individual curriculum. This new aspect of the class will encourage students to make progress through the grade-level class.
Anchor classes are asynchronous, teacher-led classes. Students do NOT have a live meeting. Daily work is provided, and the anchor teacher grades the final weekly assignment. Teachers provide biweekly videos and add instructional supports to each day's lesson. For more information about the curriculum and assignments, please see the information on the Braintree website.
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Anchor classes are available year-round. Students who request mid-semester will have their anchor class added to the LMS on Mondays.