Mid-term Progress Grades Update

Mid-term progress reports will go home on Thursday.

Missing Work
Several students are missing assignments.  The students can turn in the missing work for partial credit.  I have several assignments that did not have a name on it.

Extra Credit - Decimal Operations Quiz
All students have been given an opportunity to earn back 1/2 credit by completing a study island assignment.  In order to receive the extra credit a score of at least 80% must be obtained.

Questions
If you have any questions about your student's math grade please refer to Infinite Campus or send an email to us.

8/25/2015 - Weekly Update

QUIZ
Tomorrow the students will be receiving their decimals quiz they took on Friday, August 21st.  All students will have the opportunity to earn back 1/2 of the points they missed on the quiz.  In order to earn these points the students must accurately complete the study island assignment "Decimals Quiz 1 Extra Credit".

UPCOMING CONTENT
We will be starting to work on multiplying and dividing with decimals.

8/19/2015 - Math Class Update

What we have been doing:
Your students have started to get into a somewhat normal schedule.  We have been working on adding and subtracting decimals this week.  We have also focused on estimating what our answer should be before working the problems.  Some links to practice games are listed below:

Adding Decimals Soccer Game


Subtracting Decimals Soccer Game

General Updates:
Grades will start to be posted in Infinite Campus this week for classwork/homework.

What is coming up:

Study Island
Tomorrow and the beginning of next week all students will be taking the 6th grade math pre-assessment on study island.  The students will be able to access study island from home for completing specific study island assignments and for extra practice.

Multiplying Decimals and Dividing Decimals
Next week we will be focusing on multiplying decimals and dividing decimals.  



Dividing Decimals:

7/30/15

MR. CANN IS AWESOME!

3/18/2015 - General Update

Tomorrow is Career Day at ACMS.  Your 6th grade students will be learning about different career opportunities from special guests.

Grades

• All grades have been updated with all late work.
• Many students have not turned in their Restaurant Project.  All students were given time in class to complete the project.  The project is counted as a test grade.  I do have extra copies if any student needs one.  The last day to turn in this project is Wednesday, March 25th.
• The 3rd 9 weeks grading period ends Friday, March 27th.

Upcoming Projects/Content
The students will be starting a Surface Area & Volume Project soon.  :)  This project will be graded and included in the 4th 9 weeks grading period.

We will also be starting our Statistics Unit after we complete the Geometry unit.

ESS Reminder
Please remember that Math ESS is offered after school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until 4:10p.m.

02/26/15 - Update

Mid-term reports will be going home with the students tomorrow.

Quiz tomorrow for all classes - Percents, Decimals, and Ratios

Today the students started a "Design your own Restaurant" activity.  This activity will help the students review how to calculate area and perimeter.  The activity also extends converting units into a real world scenario that your student is designing.  I cannot wait to see all the restaurant designs!

Our next unit will be on Geometry.

• We will be working on finding area of polygons by decomposing shapes into triangles and quadrilaterals.  
• We will be learning how to find the volume of a right rectangular prism.
• We will solving real world problems by drawing/graphing polygons on a coordinate plane.
• We will be calculating surface area by using nets.  We will also be applying surface area calculations to real life.

If you have any empty boxes (for example cereal, shoe, etc.) that you do not need, please send them in with your student.  We will break them down and use them to calculate surface area during our next unit :)

02/11/2015 - Grade Reports

Math grade reports and a math update information sheet was send home with each student today.  All students will receive extra credit for bringing back a signed information sheet.  Students that have a current grade of a D or F are required to obtain parent/guardian signatures.

General Math
Today we starting working on converting between fractions, decimals, and percents.  The students have to finish their practice (one page) for homework tonight.

Accelerated Math
Today we worked on finding a percent of a number....no homework tonight for 6th period.

Helpful Links:

Define % as Ratios

Several links on AAA math for percents, decimals, and ratios

02/09/2015 - Quiz Tomorrow

General Math (Periods 1, 2, 4, & 5) will have a short quiz tomorrow on converting and comparing unit rates.  The students will be allowed to use their reference sheets and/or their agendas along with calculators.

Accelerated Math started working on converting percents, decimals, and fractions.

Extra Credit Opportunities - Ask your student about the weekly challenge work they can earn extra credit for.  Several students have taken advantage of this opportunity the last two weeks.

Grade Reports
**After all quiz scores are posted I will be sending home math grade reports with students.  Students that have a parent or guardian sign the report will receive extra credit.  If a student has a D or F it is mandatory that the grade report be signed and returned.

ESS
Just a reminder that ESS is offered for math, language arts, and social studies/science after school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until 4:10pm.

02/06/2015 - Update

General Math
All grades are up to date.  I have recorded all scores for this week's assignments, the Ratio test, and any late work received.  Monday we will be reviewing converting units.  The students will have a quiz on converting units on Tuesday, February 10th.


Accelerated Math
Monday we will be starting on percents.  The students took a short quiz on converting units today.  The quiz scores should be posted early next week.  Students that want to re-take the Ratios Unit Test (Multiple Choice only) must stay after school on Monday, February 9th.  I have announced this a few times throughout this week.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Week Update - 1/29/2015

First I want to apologize that I have not updated the blog until today.  The students have been working hard this week.  The test results from last Friday indicated that we needed to practice more on ratios.  So this week that is exactly what we did :)

Today the students created their own survey questions and actually conducted a survey during class.  Then using the data they collected they created ratio tables, ordered pairs, and a graph of the data.  I was very proud of their work!

We are going to re-test/re-quiz tomorrow so I am expecting the test results will improve.  I will be replacing the prior test grades with any improved scores.

Example of a ratio table:

Thursday, January 22nd - Unit Test tomorrow

Tomorrow all classes will be having a unit test over ratios.  Today the students reviewed during class by completing a study guide.  The students have this study guide to use in order to prepare for the unit test tomorrow.

01/20/2015 - Ratio Tables

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!

Today during the morning we had a celebration for the 6th grade student for growth shown on 5th grade's KPREP test.  The students and teachers had a great time celebrating the students accomplishments.

1st and 2nd Periods
The assembly was held during part of these class periods.  However, we had time to review some concepts from earlier this year.  We worked some problems on multiplying decimals, dividing decimals, and dividing fractions (both with a model and calculation).

4th and 5th Periods
Today we started learning about how to find equivalent ratios for a ratio table.  We worked through examples as a class.  I checked at least one problem for each student and helped as needed.  The students did a great job working in pairs on the homework.  The homework is to complete problems #8 - #13 on the front side and THREE (3) problems of their choice from the back side.

6th Period
We reviewed ratio tables today.  We reviewed some examples in class.  The students were to finish problems #8 - #19 for homework.  Most of the students finished them during class time.

Video: Equivalent Ratio Tables

Practice: Equivalent Ratio Tables

01/14/2015 - Unit Rates

General Math
Today all classes worked on calculating unit rates to determine best buys.

HW:  Finish Best Buy problems

Accelerated Math
Today we continued to practice on calculating unit rates.  Many of the students seemed to be struggling with multiplying and dividing decimals.  In order to get more practice the students are calculating the unit rates by hand using division and then using multiplication to check their answers.  They did have some time to start the homework in class.  They are required to show all work on their own paper.

HW:  Finish Let's Make a Deal Problems

01/13/2015 - End of 9 Weeks Update

The second grading period (9 weeks) ends this Friday, January 16th.  I have posted ALL work that has been turned in with a name so far.  The students have been reminded multiple times that all late work must be turned in by Thursday.

Tomorrow any student that missed Friday's quiz on Inequalities will be making that quiz up during class.



Ratios Unit

Yesterday we started our new unit on ratios.  All students have learned how to write a ratio three different ways, how to find and identify equivalent ratios, and how to use ratios to solve real world problems.  The students in Accelerated Math learned how to calculate unit rates today.

Link to some ratio practice and notes:

Equivalent Fractions

Equivalent Ratios

Video: How do you find equivalent ratios?

01/09/2015 - Quiz tomorrow

All classes had a review of inequalities practice sheet front and back to finish for homework tonight.  The students have a quiz tomorrow over inequalities.

This link has some helpful examples of how to solve inequalities:

How to Solve Inequalities

Reminder:  The last day for turning in missing/late work and projects is one week from today.

I will be updating grades in Infinite Campus by the end of this week.

01/06/2014 - More Inequalities Practice

Learning Targets

• I can graph an inequality.
• I can understand an inequality has more than one solution.

General Math
Today we went over the homework problems.  The students have more practice problems for homework tonight.  The students had plenty of time to work on the problems in class.  Most of the students completed the practice.  Tomorrow the students will be working on writing inequalities :)

Accelerated Math
Today we went over the homework problems.  The students have more practice problems tonight.  The students had plenty of time to work on the problems in class.  Most of the students completed the practice.  We will be working on compound inequalities :)

01/05/15 - New Year Updates

Today
Learning Targets:
- I can graph an inequality.
- I can understand an inequality has more than one solution.

Today we started our inequality unit.  The students completed a notes activity about inequalities using a Frayer model.  Then we worked through several examples in class together.  The students have 7 problems for homework.  Most students were able to finish most of the homework in class.

Helpful websites:
Learn Zillion Lesson

Games & Practice:

Inequality Wars

Graphing Inequality Practice


Challenge game:  Solving Inequalities Game

Other Information

• No ESS this week.  ESS resumes next Monday, January 12, 2015.
• Students that have not turned in their completed projected now have a zero listed in Infinite Campus.  I will accept the projects up until next Thursday, January 15th.  I will not deduct any points for it being late due to the illness and break. 
• The 2nd nine weeks ends on January 16th.  
• Makeup Math MAPS tests will be made starting tomorrow.  
• Due to copyright laws I will not be able to post copies of the homework on my blog.