Class Topics: 10.16.14

In Common Core Math Six today, students checked their Evening Practice, page 37, with an answer key provided by Mr. Giomini.  Students then worked on a Kahoot to help with test preparation for Monday's Chapter Three Posttest.

Today's Learning Targets: The student will be able to...

• understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values.
• use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation. 
• recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating location on opposite sides of 0 on the number line.
• understand a rational number as a point on a number line.
• understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
• compare fractions with unlike fractions.  
• order fraction from least to greatest.
• convert fractions to decimals.  
• convert decimals to fractions.  

For Weekend Practice, the student is expected to...

• review Chapter Three material in preparation for Monday's posttest.  
• complete Khan Skill: Comparing Fractions with Different Denominators.