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Weekly Class Activity and  Homework Assignments

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  • Check here each week to see what we are working on and what homework is being assigned. 
  • If you are absent, follow what is listed below for make-up work. 
  • Contact Mrs. Mathews with any questions. jmathews@lps.k12.co.us
  • Slight changes to the daily assignments may be made. If this occurs, your son or daughter will make a note of the changes in their planners. 

 

 

 


 

Week of May 13th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday Final Exam

Bring coordinate picture Tuesday



Tuesday

 

Class Challenge

Day 1

Coordinate Graph challenge...

 

 

None!


 

 


Wednesday

 

Class Challenge 

Day 2

Toothpick problems

 

 

 


 


Thursday

 

Class Challenge

Day 3

Ultimate Brain Challenge

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Final Exam Monday, May 20th

You may have a note card for the final exam

Friday Bowling Trip~

 


 

 


 
Have a winderful summer~!

 

 

Week of May 13th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

Coordinate Graphing: 

4 - quadrant graphs and translations

Additional Practice worksheet


Final Exam Monday, May 20th

Tuesday

 

Coordinate Graphing and Inequalities

 

 

Check up worksheet


 

 

 Final Exam Monday, May 20th

Wednesday

 

 Coordintate Graph

Picture creations

 

 

 

Work on Coordinate graph picture

Due Monday.

  Final Exam Monday, May 20th

Thursday

 

Final Exam Review Day # 1

Smart Board Activity: 

 http://express.smarttech.com/#

 

 

 

 

 


Final Exam Review packet pg. 3, 4 

 

 

Final Exam Monday, May 20th

You may have a note card for the final exam

Friday

Final Exam Review day # 2

 pg 1

pg 2

pg3

pg 4

 

 

Study your review packet for the final exam and our Smart Board Activity

 

 


 
            
 Final Exam Monday, May 20th

You may have a note card for the final exam

 

Week of May 6th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

Mathematical Properties

Students will learn to identify different properties used in order of operations: 

Distributive, Commutative, Associative, Identitiy

Packet # 27 - 34

# 80 - 93


Expressions, Equations and Order of Operations test Wed. 

Tuesday

 

Review of Common Core Investigation 2: 

 

 

Gold Check -up worksheet


 

 

 Expressions, Equations and Order of Operations test Wed. 

 

Wednesday

 

 

 Expressions, Equations and Order of Operations test 

 

 

 

  Bring Graph paper every day

Thursday

 

Common Core Investigation 3

Problems 3.1 and 3.2 in class notes

Coordinate Graphs and Integers

Students will relate positive and negative numbers to real-life situations. 

 

 

 Worksheet 5-4

A Place for Everything and Using the Number Line

 

 


 

 

 

 Bring Graph paper every day
Friday

Integers: 

Addition and Subtraction using number lines and algebraic methods

 

 

 

Worksheet 5-6 and 5-7 completed in class 

 

 

 
 
            
 

      

Week of April 29th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

 Function Tables and expressions

Students will identify expressions from tables and graph the functions

Function worksheet: 

Graph A - F on individual graphs 


April Warm-ups Due Tuesday 

Tuesday

 

Investigation 2: 

Expressions and graphing linear functios 

Students will complete Problems 2.1 - 2.3 with their table partners

 

 

Common Core packet: # 9 - 26, 35 - 44


 

 

April Warm-ups Due Tuesday 

 

Wednesday

Common Core Investigation 2

Problem 2.4  

Expressions and equations: 

 

 

 

Common Core packet: # 45 - 55

 

  

Thursday

Common Core Investigation 2

Prblems 2.5 and 2.6

Inverse operations to solve problems. 

Working backwards to solve problems

 

 

 

Common core packet # 27 - 34, 56 - 64 


 

 

 

 
Friday

Common Core Investigation 2

Problem 2.7

Properties:

Associative, Commutative and Distributive

 

 

 

 

Common Core packet # 80 - 93 

 

 

 
 
            
 

     

Week of April 23rd

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

 

 


 

Tuesday

 

Order of Operations: 

Review of basic operations. 

Funnel demonstration to practice writing each step. 

 

 

 

Order of Operations worksheet 1


 

 

 

 

Wednesday

Order of Operations

Exponents  

Exponents, writing and simplifying in order of operations problems

 

 

Order of Operations worksheet 2

 

  

Thursday

Expressions and Evaluating

Writing expressions and simplifying 

 

 

 

Expressions worksheet Day 3 


 

 

 

 
Friday

Writing Expressions

Group Review: Table Rotation

 

 

 

 

No homework for groups who finish their table rotations in class. 

 

 

 
 
            
 

    

Week of April 15th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Core 3/4 MAP Testing today. 

 

Core 5/6 and Core 7/8

 

 Ratios: 

Finding Unit Rates to compare prices

Common Core Investigation 1.2

 

Exercise questions #1 - 11

pg. 2 of worksheet

Ratios Quiz Friday. 

 

Tuesday

 

Ratios and Proportions:

Skilttles Experiment

"Are all bags of Skittles evenly divided among the colors? " 

 

 

 

 Complete a bar graph of your Skittles data and create 2 questions/answers to share with class Wednesday


 

 

 

Ratios Quiz Friday. 

Wednesday

Ratios Continued: 

Problem 1.3

Ratios and Tables and graphing for predictions. 

 

 

Ratios worksheet # 3

wkst 3 pg 2

and 4

 

 

 Ratios Quiz Friday. 

Thursday

Problem 1.4 and 1.5 

Applying Formulas to ratios and coversions. 

 

 

worksheet 1.2 pg 1


worksheet 1.2 pg 2

 


 

 

 

 Ratios Quiz Friday. 
Friday

Ratios Quiz in Class

 

 

 

 

 Order of Operations worksheet 

 

 

 
 
            
 

   

Week of April 8th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Percent Culminating Activity: 

Ordering from a cataloge

pg. 77 – 78 # 1, 2, 4 and 5 

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Wednesday

Ratios cont.

Equivalent ratios and Unit Rates

Practice in Computer Lab with VirtualNerd.com

 

 Ratio Practice PDF

Worksheet # 8 

Show the division work on separate paper

 

 

 

 

Thursday

 Ratios: 

Finding Unit Rates to compare prices

Common Core Investigation 1.2

 

 

 

 Worksheet 7 and worksheet 6-2

 


 

 

 

 
Friday

Core 5/6 and 7/8 will be taking MAP tests today;

Core 3/4 will take MAP testing Monday.   

 

 

Ratios and Proportions:

Skilttles Experiment

"Are all bags of Skittles evenly divided among the colors? "

 

Homework for Core 3/4 only: 

Complete a bar graph of your Skittles data and create 2 questions/answers to share with class Wednesday

 

 

 

 
 
            
 

  

Week of April 1st

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Percents/Decimal Review

Students will review as a class the basic parts of decimals: Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide

 

All Students: 

1. Correct TakeHome Quiz and worksheet 93 

 

Take Home Quiz corrections due Tuesday

Tuesday

 

Problem 4.3

Percents and Finding Bargains. 

Practice with finding % of items and using this to determine best bargain. 

 

 

All Students: 

 

Homework:

Pg. 56 # 7, 8 pg. 57 # 12 – 18 pg. 59 # 31 – 33

 

 


 

 

 All Dream Room Projects have been returned to students. 

 

Wednesday

 Percents and Ratios

Solving all percents problems using ratios 

 

 

 Discount and Sales Tax worksheet

100% accurate

 

 

 

 

Thursday

 

 

Problem 5.1 and 5.2

Solving additional percent problems using any method

Students will indivicually complete Problem 5.1 and 5.2 from their Bits III book

 

 

Standard:

pg. 67 # 1 -9  pg 69 # 16 – 18

Challenge:

pg. 69 # 16 – 18 pg. 71 # 31 pg. 72 # 32 

 


 

 

 

 
Friday

 

Final Review of Percents: 

. In class review of percents using smartboard practice and white boards. 

All students should be comfortable with solving any basic % problem after this week. 

 All Students: 

pg. 77 - 78

#1 - 5

(Started in class, but needs to be completed at home. 

 

 
 
            
 

 

Week of March 18th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Problem 3.1 Deciphering Decimal Situations

Key focus is on writing expressions to solve problems and choose appropriate operation to solve each problem.

 

All Students: 

pg. 43 # 1-4, 6

pg 44 # 25 , 26

pg. 45 # 27, 28

 

March Warm-ups due Friday 

Tuesday

Problem 3.2 The Great Equalizer: Common Denominators

Main focus on converting decimals into fractions with common denominators to discover why we move the decimal points over when dividing by decimals.

Standard: 

pg 43 # 7 – 12 pg. 46 # 29 – 31

Challenge:

pg. 43 # 7 – 12 pg. 47 # 32 – 40

 


 

 

March Warm-ups due Friday

 

 

Wednesday

 

Problem 3.3 Exploring Dividing Decimals

Using both common denominators and other methods, students will build an algorithm for dividing decimals

 Standard:

pg. 44 # 15 – 24,

pg. 49 # 1,2 Reflections

Challenge:

pg. 44 # 15 – 18 pg. 48 # 41 – 43 and pg. 49 # 1,2 Reflections.

 

March Warm-ups due Friday

Thursday

Problem 3.4

Representing Fractions as Decimals

Students learn how to recognize terminating decimals and repeating decimals from their fractional format.

 

 


 Take Home Quiz


 

 

March Warm-ups due Friday
Friday


Class Challenge Day:

Jeopardy Game reviewing basic 6th grade concepts

 No homework. 

Enjoy your spring break!

 

 
 
            

 

 

 Week of March 11th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 Dream Room Project Started

1. Expecation Sheet handed out and review

2. Practice determining surface area of floors and walls. 

Handouts

Dream Room Rubric and Expectations Sheet

Daily Grade Sheet

Cost Sheet

 

 

Measure existing bedroom for Day 1 work for Tuesday 

 

 

Dream Room Project due Friday  

Tuesday

Day 1: Room Dimensions 

 

Check Day 1 on Daily Grade Sheet for required work  

 


 

All work should be completed in class. There is no need to have homework, if time is used well in class 


 

 

Dream Room Project due Friday 

 

 

Wednesday Day 2: Redisgin Process

 

All work should be completed in class. There is no need to have homework, if time is used well in class 

 

 

 

Dream Room Project due Friday 

Thursday

Day 3: Complete Redisgn process

 


.

 


 All work should be completed in class. There is no need to have homework, if time is used well in class


 

 

Dream Room Project due Friday  
Friday

Dream Room Share day: 

Gallery Share of all completed projects. 

Self-assessment of final product and weekly work. 

 No homework. 

 

 
 
            

 

 Week of March 4th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

Bits III 

Percent of and Sales Tax

Percent Lesson

 

 

 Standard: 

Pg. 55 # 1 – 4, pg 56 # 6, 9-11

Challenge:

pg 55 # 1 – 4, pg. 59 # 27 – 30 pg. 60 # 34 

 

TCAP Review Packet due either Thursday or next week Monday

Tuesday

Bits III 

Percent of and Tax and Tip

 

 

Percent Worksheet

 

 

TCAP Review Packet due either Thursday or next week Monda

 

 

Wednesday Probability and Percents

 

 

Probabilty Packet

( 4 worksheets) 

 Worksheet  2

Worksheet 3

 

 

TCAP Review Packet due either Thursday or next week Monday

Thursday

Bits III

Finish with Probility and Percents

Review expectations for TCAP testing.

 

 


.

 Finish worksheets assigned on Wednesday.


 


 

 

TCAP Review Packet due either Thursday or next week Monday
Friday

 No School

 

 

 
 
              Measurements of your Dream Room due Monday. 

 

 Week of February 25th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

Bits III 

Multiplying Decimals: 
Apply different estimation techniques 
 
Multiply Decimals algorithm

 

All Groups:  pg. 28 # 1 – 14 pg. 29 # 24, pg. 31 # 34 – 39 

 

February Warm-ups due Friday 

Tuesday

Bits III 

Decimals and Percents

In class review of addition, subtraction and multiplication

 

http://www.math-play.com/math-jeopardy.html

 

 

 

Standard: pg. 30 #25 – 32 and pg. 31 # 34-39

Challenge: pg. 32 # 46 – 48 pg 33 # 50 - 53

 

 

February Warm-ups due Friday 

 

 

Wednesday

Bits III

Continued practice with Multiplying decimals

Complete Investigations 2.1 and 2.3 in class.

 

 

 pg. 24

Parts A - C 

 

 

February Warm-ups due Friday 

Thursday

Bits III

Percents

Finding percents of and applying this algorithm to sales tax. 

 


.

 

Standard: Pg. 55 # 1 – 4, pg 56 # 6, 9-11

Challenge: pg 55 # 1 – 4, pg. 59 # 27 – 30 pg. 60 # 34 

 


 

 

February Warm-ups due Friday 
Friday

 Constructed Response review

Quiz on addition, subtraction and multiplication of decimals.

 

In class practice on constructed responses similar to TCAP. 

 

Complete any unfinished problems from the TCAP Constructed Response packet.  

 

 
 
 

 

 Week of February 19th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

No School

 

 


Tuesday

Bits III Started:

Decimals and Percents

1. Why does lining up decimal points to add or subtract work? 

2. Complete Investigation 1.1 in class. 

3. Review of ordering decimals and writing decimals in standard and expanded form. 

pg. 13 # 1-7 pg 15 # 23 – 29  pg. 16 # 40 – 41

 

Investigation 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 will be turned in Thursday for a grade. 

 

Wednesday

Bits III

Investigation 1.2 and 1.3

Adding and subtracting decimas by decimal notation and fraction notation

 

Standard

pg. 13 # 8 – 16 all, pg. 14 # 20 – 22 and pg. 15 # 30 – 32

            Challenge:

pg 13 # 8 – 16, pg. 17 # 47 and pg. 18 # 48 – 53

 

 

 

 

  Investigation 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 will be turned in Thursday for a grade.

Thursday

Bits III

Investigation 1.4 and review of addition, subtraction of decimals. 

1. Complete in class packet of review work. 

2. In class challenge review. 

 

 


.

Standard:

pg. 16 # 37 – 39 and pg. 17 # 44 – 46

            Challenge:

pg. 18 – 19

# 55 – 58 all

  


 

 

Investigation 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 will be turned in Today for a grade.
Friday

 Constructed Response review

In class practice on constructed responses similar to TCAP. 

 

Review packet if not finished in class.  

 

 
 
 

  

 Week of February 11th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Area and Circumference of a circle.

Covering and Surrounding Book

pg. 80 # 5-15all
 

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of all polygons Friday 

Tuesday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Continue with Area and Circumference of a circle

Covering and Surrounding Book

Standard: 

pg. 82 # 22 - 27

pg 84 # 36

Challenge: 

pg. 84 # 36

pg. 86 # 40 - 46

Covering and Surrounding Final Test Thursday!
Wednesday

Covering and Surrounding/Two Dimensional Measurement: 

  Final Test Review

pg. 90 # 1- 3 all

 

Covering and Surrounding Final Test Thursday!    

Thursday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement:  

Final Test

 


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None! Enjoy your long weekend

 

 

 
Friday  

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

Week of February 4th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Area and Perimeter of Triangles: Finding using rectangles.

 Partner worksheet
 

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of all polygons Friday 

Tuesday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Area of Triangles: 

Create a formula and identify Base, Height, Area of triangles.

Covering and Surrounding Book

Standard: 

pg. 45 # 7, pg 46 # 10 - 17 and pg 48 # 18 -22

Challenge: 

pg. 47 # 18 - 22

pg. 51 # 39, 40

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of all polygons Friday
Wednesday

Covering and Surrounding/Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Area and perimeter of a parallelogram.... how is this related to a triangle? 

pg. 60 # 1-7 all

pg. 63 # 30

 

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of all polygons Friday   

Thursday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement:  

Area and Perimeter of polygons.

Review all formulas and compound areas.

 

Covering and Surrounding Book


pg. 63 # 22 - 27

pg 64 # 28 - 30

 

 

 Quiz on Area and Perimeter of all polygons Friday
Friday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

 

 

Quiz on area and perimeter of all polygons.

Area/Perimeter worksheet

 

 
 
 

 

 

 Week of January 29th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Constant Area/ Changing Perimeter

How do you find the largest and smallest perimeter given a fixed Area?  

 pg. 26 # 2 - 6 all

# 3 -5 have three parts, make sure to complete all three parts. 

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of Rectangles Tuesday.  

Tuesday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Quiz on Area and Perimeter of Rectangles. 

Covering and Surrounding Book

Reflections pg. 18 # 1-4

January Warm-ups Due Thursday! 
Wednesday

Covering and Surrounding/Two Dimensional Measurement: 

1. Review Fixed Area, changing perimeter. 

2. What does this coordinate graph look like? How do we find the largest and smallest perimeter from a graph?

Perfect pg. 26 # 3-6 from Monday

Is there a table, and coordinate graph for each problem # 3-5? 

Do you have clear descriptions for your answers to # 6 a - d? 

 

January Warm-ups Due Thursday!    

Thursday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement:  

 How do you find the largest and smallest area given a fixed Perimeter?  

How is this coordinate graph different from the fixed Area graphs? 

How are they similar? 

 

Covering and Surrounding Book

Standard: 

pg. 29 # 9

pg. 30 # 10 - 12, 14, 19 

 

Challenge:

pg. 29 # 9

pg. 34 # 24, 26, 29

 

 

 
Friday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

 

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html

 

Area of Irregular Shapes

Practice and review 

Irregular Shapes worksheet #2

 

 
 
 

  

Week of January 22nd

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

 

 

Tuesday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

How do we measure the boundaries and interior of rectangular shapes? 

Covering and Surrounding Book

pg. 6 parts A, B and C. 

Data About Us Test returned in  class today
Wednesday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement:  

 

1. Finding area and perimeter of rectangular shapes. 

2. Create an algorithm for area and perimeter of rectangular shapes. 

Covering and Surrounding Book

Standard: 

pg. 12 # 13 - 23 

 

Challenge:

pg 13 # 22, 23

pg. 16 # 33-36

 

 

   

Thursday

 Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Investigation 1.3: Decoding Area Designs. 

Working with Algorithm of area formula

 Covering and Surrounding Book

Standard: 

pg. 14 # 24-26

pg. 15 # 32

Challenge: 

pg. 15 # 32

pg. 17 # 37, 40-42

 
Friday

Covering and Surrounding /Two Dimensional Measurement: 

Irregular Shapes: 

Apply area and perimeter of rectangles to irregular shapes. 

Irregular Shape worksheet: 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 Week of January 14th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 Data About Us

Box and Whisker plots: 

How to set up a box and whisker plot 

 worksheet 4-7

Data About Us Test Friday!  

Tuesday

Data About Us: 

Line Graphs: 

How to display comparison data, such as arm span to height

Data About Us Book

pg 41 # 5 - 8 all and pg. 44 # 12

Data About Us Test Friday!  
Wednesday

Data About Us: 

More about Mean...

How do outliers affect Mean? 

pg 56 # 1-4 pg 58 # 12 - 17

Data About Us Test Friday!   

Thursday

 Data About Us:

Review of all the different types of graphs to prepare for our test

pg 67 # 1 - 5 all  Data About Us Test Friday!  
Friday

Data About Us: 

Final Unit Test

None... have a good weekend!  

 
 
 

 

 Week of January 7th

Day In Class work Assignment Up-Coming Reminders
Monday

 

 

 

Tuesday

Data About Us: 

Mean, Median, Mode and Range

Class Review with notes how to determine each. 

Data About Us Book

pg. 21 # 1,2, 7-12

Have Graph paper and a straight edge with you for class everyday
Wednesday

Data About Us: 

Line plots

and contiued review of Mean, Median, Mode and Range

pg. 28 # 40 - 43 

Have Graph paper and a straight edge with you for class everyday

Thursday

 Data About Us:

Review of Histograms and Bar Graphs

In class practice in pairs. 

wkst 4-5  Have Graph paper and a straight edge with you for class everyday 
Friday

Data About Us: 

Quiz on Mean, median, mode and range. 

pg 66 -67  # 1-2

Make a histogram for each graph. 

 Have Graph paper and a straight edge with you for class everyday
 


 

 

 

 

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