Strand: Data Management
Assignment: Graphing and Analyzing Temperature Project
This Assignment is due: TBD (as a class this week)
Strand: Number Sense and Numeration
Test: Friday, November 29th, 2019
This will the first personalized test experience for grade six this year.
If you choose Test A: you will need to complete Test B, before Winter Break. If you choose Test C, you do not need to do Test B at all. You will have a conference with me to choose the best test for your learning.
Who is Test A for? Students who need some more time and support understanding concepts and skills.
Who is Test B for? Students who are ready and can use the unit skills and concepts with good explanation and consistency.
Who is Test C for? Students who have displayed consistent work in excellent quiz results, can teach the concepts with great accuracy and are ready for a challenge.
What’s on the test: TEST B?
- Greater numbers (whole numbers to billion)
- Tenths, Hundredths, Thousandths
- Expanded Form (Decimals)
- Comparing and Ordering
- Round wholes and tenths, hundredths, thousandths
- Communicating about understanding differences and similarities
- Adding and Subtracting with decimals
- Word Problems
- Decimals to Fractions (This part should be a review from previous years)
- Overall Skills Practice
- Whole Unit Review
What’s the difference between Test B and Test C?
- more complex questions
- multi-step word problems
- more conceptual problems ( open ended to provide evidence and explanation of a possible solution)
- Re-naming Numbers
- Decimals to Fractions and improper fractions and equivalents
Strand: Number Sense and Numeration
Quiz: Monday, November 11th, 2019
- Greater Numbers to billions
- standard form (numerical)
- expanded form
- word form
- Comparing and Ordering numbers
- least to greatest
- inequality signs
- renaming numbers
- Word problems with greater numbers
Strand: Patterning and Pre-Algebra
Test #1 October 17th, 2019
- Finding and explaining patterns in numbers
- writing pattern rules
- finding the common different (what changes each time)
- Graphing Patterns
- Coordinate pairs from a Table of Values
- Plotting pairs on a coordinate grid *cartesian plane*
- Expressions
- using variables
- Substituting variables into simple expressions
- Finding equivalent expressions and equations with varying numbers and operations.
Test will marked as:
- Knowledge and Understanding (Level 1 Questions 50-60%)
- Application (Level 2 Questions 60-70%)
- Thinking and Connections (Level 3 and 4 70%-100%)
- Communication Marks (Levels 1-4 Showing your work properly and effectively)
Example and Practice Worksheets
Strand: Patterning and Pre-Algebra
Quiz #1 October 3rd, 2019
- Finding patterns in numbers
- Stating a pattern rule
- Using variables and substituting values in simple expressions