Census at School - United States. Teaching Math: Grades 6-8: Representation. Use the following Interactive Activity to work on the problem below, which lets you manipulate different forms of representation -- graphs and text - to tell a story.
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All foldables & study guides that we have made in class are available below. If you need help filling in the blanks, please see the completed foldable or study guide in the classroom. Remember, many of these files were copied back-to-back, so a two-page file is the front and back of the foldable. 6th Grade Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 11 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 12 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Decimals Foldable (PDF 43 KB)Four-door foldable for decimal operations 6th Grade Ratio, Rates, and Proportions (PDF 46 KB)This foldable gives definitions and examples of ratios, rates, and proportions. 6th Grade Proportions (PDF 32 KB)This foldable shows the steps needed to solve a proportion. 6th Grade Percents (PDF 70 KB)This tabbed-book is a great overview of percents.
Activities - The Geometer's Sketchpad Resource Center. Back to the Introduction On this page you can read about activities, download individual sketches, or download the entire collection of sketches, handouts and Teacher Notes. You are free to photocopy these activities for use in your own classroom. You are also free to make changes to the sketches themselves to suit your own needs; but please be sure to save them under different filenames so you don't confuse them with the original sketches. The activities' notes and sketches are Copyright 2003 KCP Technologies. All other rights reserved. She Thinks I Factor Sexy by on Prezi. A new math problem every night. NC Math Common Core - home. Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers.
Dy/dan » Algebra: The Supplement. Common core. Traditional+Sequence+with+Limitations040212. Plus.maths.org. The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education. Vonnegut’s Story Graphs. I love the way Kurt Vonnegut explained stories through graphs, described here by Derek Sivers.
Back in 1994, I saw Vonnegut do a version of this exercise in person, on a blackboard at Duke. In the lecture I saw, Vonnegut explained that Hamlet was the epitome of real drama, since unlike Cinderella, the story graph is pretty much a straight line. Essentially, Hamlet never learns whether anything that happens is good or bad and nothing is resolved, just like in life. Here’s the published version of the lecture, from A Man Without a Country (scroll down to the *): Incidentally, Vonnegut made the best exit of any public speaker I’ve ever seen.
[via @gregg] Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover.
Math is Fun - Maths Resources. Super Teacher Worksheets. Marilyn Burns: 10 Big Math Ideas. Everyone's favorite math guru shares the top 10 ways you can enhance your students' math learning, test scores, and skills Several years ago, Michael, one of my third graders, wrote this in his journal: "I never used to look forward to math.
All we did was add and subtract. Now I like it more. We work together in class, and we still learn math but in a better way. " In a sense, Michael described the challenge we face as math teachers-to help students become flexible thinkers who are comfortable with all the content areas of mathematics and able to apply their learning to problem-solving situations. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.