Gr 6 Math

January - Geometry

Overall Expectations - By the end of Grade 6, students will: 

• classify and construct polygons and angles

• sketch three-dimensional figures and construct three-dimensional figures from drawings

More specifically:

- sort and classify quadrilaterals by geometric properties related to symmetry, angles, and sides.

- sort polygons according to the number of lines of symmetry and the order of rotational symmetry

- construct polygons using a variety of tools, given angle and side measurements

- measure and construct angles up to 180° using a protractor, and classify them as acute, right, obtuse,

  or straight angles

October - Patterns and Algebra

BIG IDEAS (taken from “Big Ideas by Dr. Small”)

• Patterns represent identified regularities. There is always an element of repetition.
• Patterns can be represented in a variety of ways (i.e. pictures, words, graphs, sequences, tables).
• Some ways of displaying data highlight patterns.
• By identifying the element of repetition, one can make predictions related to the pattern.

STUDENT LEARNING GOALS:

Goal 1: I can identify the type, extend, and find missing terms within patterns.

Goal 2: I can determine the transformation (rule) in an extending pattern.

Goal 3: I can use the core of a repeating pattern to make predictions.

Goal 4: I can represent and determine patterns in graphs, sequences, tables, pictures, and words.

Goal 5: I can make predictions related to a specific pattern.

Goal 6: I can understand that algebra is a language used for representing and exploring mathematical

             relationships.

Goal 7: I can investigate problems involving missing numbers and develop an early sense of variable.

By the end of Grade 6, students will:

• describe and represent relationships in growing and shrinking patterns (where the terms are whole numbers), and investigate repeating patterns involving rotations;

- make tables of values for growing patterns, given pattern rules in words.

– determine the term number of a given term in a growing pattern that is represented by a pattern rule.

• use variables in simple algebraic expressions and equations to describe relationships;

- demonstrate an understanding of different ways in which variables are used.

- identify, through investigation, the quantities in an equation that vary and those that remain constant.

- solve problems that use two or three symbols or letters as variables to represent different unknown quantities.