Day 21: Math 6 - Calculation and Mid-Point Quiz / Math 6+ - More Simplifying Expressions

Students in Math 6 today had two tasks:

1. Complete Calculation Quiz #4
2. Complete Topic Two Mid-point Quiz.

Once both tasks were completed, students were encouraged to work on Khan to gain additional mastery percentage points.

Math 6+ students discussed last night's evening practice with Mr. Giomini's answer key. We continued to work with simplifying algebraic expressions using gcf.

Standards addressed in today's lesson:

• Math 6:
• Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
• Understand ordering and the absolute value of rational numbers.
• Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
• Math 6+:
• Write expressions that record operations with numbers and with letters standing for numbers. For example, express the calculation "Subtract y from 5" as 5 - y.
• Identify parts of an expression using mathematical terms (sum, term, product, factor, quotient, coefficient); view one or more parts of an expression as a single entity. For example, describe the expression 2 (8 + 7) as a product of two factors; view (8 + 7) as both a single entity and a sum of two terms.