Class Topics: 05.07.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check that dealt with the distributive property and multistep equations.  Students were given their Part Nine Midpoint Quiz back and encouraged to ask questions should they have any.  More time was spent on working with equations that dealt with fractions and the distributive property.  

  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...  

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 05.06.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini administered the Part Nine Midpoint Quiz.

                               

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation as a process of answering a question: which value make the equation true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation true.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...  

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 05.05.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check.  Class spent time working with solving multistep equations in preparation for Wednesday's midpoint quiz.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...  

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 05.04.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check dealing with multistep equations and combining like terms.  A portion of the class was dedicated to reading from the book A Mind for Numbers.  

We continued our work from Friday with solving and graphing multistep inequalities.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. Khan Skill:Two-Step Inequalities.    
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 05.01.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check dealing with multistep equations and combining like terms.  A portion of the class was dedicated to reading from the book A Mind for Numbers.  

The focus of today's lesson was reading, simplifying, solving, and graphing inequalities.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

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

1. Khan Skill: Find the Mistake in One-Step Equations.    
2. 45 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.30.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check dealing with multistep equations and combining like terms.  A portion of the class was dedicated to reading from the book A Mind for Numbers.  

Solving inequalities was reintroduced from earlier in the semester.  Mr. Giomini modeled some examples before students worked independently on Practice A and Problem Solving.   

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. Khan Skill: Testing Solutions of Inequalities.    
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Testing Solutions to Inequalities:

Class Topics: 04.29.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini assigned the students a Quick Check dealing with multistep equations and combining like terms.  A portion of the class was dedicated to reading from the book A Mind for Numbers.  

Students then worked cooperatively to write equations based on given scenarios.  Mr. Giomini then gathered the class back together and reviewed the answers.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. Problem Solving 11.2.    
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.28.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students first started class with a quick check dealing with a multistep equation.  After grading as a class, Mr. Giomini modeled tonight's Khan Skill: Combining Like Terms with Distribution.  Students then worked with solving equations where a variable was on both sides of the equation.

Ex 1: Distributive property to simplify: Multi-Step Equations

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. Khan Skill: Combining Like Terms with Distribution.
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.27.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students reviewed the weekend's evening practice.  Students worked alone or pairs to write and solve equations from story problems.

Example: Two-Step Equations

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. Khan Skill: Two-Step Equations.
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.24.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students reviewed last night's evening practice.  The remainder of class was dedicated to students writing and solving equations when given different scenarios.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

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

1. two-step equations seven through twelve.  
2. 45 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.23.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students reviewed last night's evening practice which caused a little confusion for some of us.  For the remainder of class, students worked to solve more multistep equations that dealt with combining like terms.  

        

     
Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. practice A, 1 - 12.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.22.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students continued their discussion about Chapter Three from the book A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science.  Students independently read one subheading today before moving into Part Nine: Multistep Equations and Inequalities.

Today, Mr. Giomini modeled how to solve numerous two-step equations that incorporated addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Students worked independently to practice the skill.  Mr. Giomini circulated the room to assist students as they completed the task.

                                       

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality true?
2. use substitution to determine whether a solution makes an equation or inequality true.
3. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
4. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
5. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. problem solving: 1 - 8.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Example: two-step equations: Let's practice some two step equations, some of which require merging terms and using the distributive property.

Class Topics: 04.21.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini and the students discussed text from a book titled A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science.  Students read both independently and as group to discuss the relevance that the text has to them and their academics.  A short writing assignment was given at the conclusion of the class. 

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text.  
2. provide an accurate summary of the text from prior knowledge and opinions.  
3. analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.20.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini distributed back the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area Posttest.  A graph displaying the distribution of grades for the team and class periods was displayed and discussed.  Mr. Giomini then fielded questions regarding the assessment.  

                                                           

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.
4. apply techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.17.15

In Math Six today, students had a shortened class due to PARCC testing.  Mr. Giomini provided the students with an additional ten minutes to either review or complete the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area Posttest.  The remainder of the class period was spent modeling answers from the assessment. 

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.
4. apply techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

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

1. 45 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.16.15

In Math Six today, students were administered the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area posttest. Grades and comments should be posted later today or early tomorrow.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.
4. apply techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 04.15.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by reviewing one last day for tomorrow's posttest.  Today's review consisted of six questions that were presented in a testing format to help alleviate any test anxiety prior to that actual assessment tomorrow.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.
2. test preparation for the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area assessment on Thursday, April 16, 2015.  (New date!)

Class Topics: 04.14.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by reviewing one last day for tomorrow's posttest.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.
2. test preparation for the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area assessment on Thursday, April 16, 2015.  (New date!)

Class Topics: 04.13.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by reviewing different formulas that were utilized prior to Spring Break.  Mr. Giomini modeled some problems for students and then assigned problems for students to complete.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice at Khan Academy.
2. test preparation for the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area assessment on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

Spring Break: Day Nine

Students,

I hope you enjoyed your break.  Today is the last day of the break and hopefully you have reenergized for the final stretch of the school year.  The past few days I have been eager to get back to school; too many days off are difficult for me.

Below are videos you may have seen before, but hopefully they are a reminder of what is possible in the upcoming weeks.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Spring Break: Days Five and Six

Students,

Sorry for not posting the previous two days; I have been on Khan overload attempting to get this one last skill: Rate Problems 2.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Multiple rates word problem: Sometimes you'll need to solve for multiple parts of the equation before getting at the answer. Here we solve for average speed, but first we have to determine total distance and total time.

Spring Break: Day Four

Students,

Today I stopped into school for a quick minute to work on some items for our next topic once the Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area posttest is completed.  After that, I headed to Philadelphia to watch the Rex Sox blast the Phillies 8 - 0 thanks to five homeruns by three Red Sox batters:
Pedroia (2), Ramirez (2), and Betts (1).

Even with all of that, I had time to knock out 20 minutes on Khan Academy.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Spring Break: Day Three

Students,

Today I spent some time on Khan again; I am now up to 91% of 7th grade mastered.  I still have seven skills not practiced yet which I hope to work on once I publish this post.

Earlier today I went back in time, thanks to Dr. Brown, to watch Kelly McGarry ride his mountain bike which was cool.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Spring Break: Day Two

Students,

Today was a relaxing day.  Spent about 40 minutes on Khan and have only seven more skills to practice in 7th Grade.  Upped my overall percent mastered to 89% which needs to improve.  Did some base jumping with Mr. Hartwell.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Spring Break: Day One

Students,

I spent today working on 7th Grade Khan skills for about 30 minutes in an attempt to catch Alejandro, raking out my front lawn, and doing some hang gliding.  My hang gliding name is Flo Orley; just sounds cooler than Scott Giomini.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Class Topics: 04.02.14

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing, in pairs or alone, a layered review sheet dealing with both volume and surface area.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Spring Break Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice everyday on Khan Academy.  (Optional)
2. begin preparation for the Part Eight posttest on 04.15.15.

Class Topics: 04.01.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding surface for a three-dimensional shape.

Mr. Giomini went through the answers from yesterday's activity regarding surface area to help students see where they succeeded and where they struggled.  Once that activity was complete, students were given some challenge problems dealing with calculating the surface area for L-shaped prisms.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
2. begin preparation for the Part Eight posttest on 04.15.15.

Class Topics: 03.31.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding surface for a three-dimensional shape.

Students were arranged into a different group of three to complete story problems dealing with surface area.  Once answers were checked by Mr. Giomini, students were allowed to begin on their evening practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page ten in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area.
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
3. begin preparation for the Part Eight posttest on 04.15.15.

Class Topics: 03.30.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding surface for a three-dimensional shape.

Students were arranged into groups of three to complete questions that dealt with both volume and surface area.  Once answers were checked by Mr. Giomini, students were allowed to begin on their evening practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page seven in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area.
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
3. begin preparation for the Part Eight posttest on 04.15.15.

Class Topics: 03.27.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding surface for a net.

During 2 and 3°, Mr. Giomini modeled the weekend's Khan Skill dealing with surface area.  The remainder of class, students worked to complete the Khan Skill: Surface Area and complete a portion of their 45 minutes of meaningful practice for the weekend.

Students who are in 4 and 7° worked independently to complete a six question Socrative that dealt with volume and surface area.  The remainder of class was allocated to completing this weekend's Khan Skill and 45 minutes of meaningful practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

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

1. 45 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Surface Area

Class Topics: 03.26.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding surface for a net.  Students worked independently to complete an eight question Socrative that dealt with volume and surface area.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 03.25.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding the volume of a right rectangular prism with mixed numbers.

Students continued their work with calculating the area for different three-dimensional shapes, polyhedra.  The focus today was deconstructing the shape into a net and calculating the area for each individual face to determine the overall surface area of the shape.

Calculate the area for the cube.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Surface Area Using Nets

Finding Surface Area: Nets of Polyhedra

Class Topics: 03.24.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding the volume of a right rectangular prism with mixed numbers.

Mr. Giomini introduced the concept of surface area to the students by first working with the different nets of three-dimensional shapes.  These techniques were then applied to calculate the surface area of different three-dimensional shapes.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles.
2. use the nets to find the surface area of these figures.
3. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Volume Word Problems
2. complete page six in Part Eight - Surface Area and Volume.

Finding Surface Area: Nets of Polyhedra

Class Topics: 03.23.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with finding the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional sides.

Mr. Giomini then modeled the Khan Skill: Volume Word Problems for the students.  Students were then assigned two story problems similar to the ones from the Khan Skill to complete with an assigned partner.  Once the two answers were correct and checked by Mr. Giomini, students were allowed to begin their evening practice.

Volume Word Problem

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. apply the formulas V  = lwh and V = Bh to find volumes of right-rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.  
2. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Volume Word Problems (Due on 03.25.15)

Class Topics: 03.20.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by completing a Quick Check dealing with volume of right rectangular prisms.  Students worked with an assigned partner to complete story problems dealing with the volume of right rectangular prisms. Once their work was checked by Mr. Giomini, students were allowed to begin independent work on Khan Academy in an attempt to complete their two assigned skills and their 45 minutes of weekend practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. apply the formulas V  = lwh and V = Bh to find volumes of right-rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.  
2. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

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

1. 45 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Volume with Unit Cubes
• Volume with Fractions

Class Topics: 03.19.15

In Math Six, students began Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area by viewing a Brain Pop video that explained the concept.  Mr. Giomini used sand and geometric shapes to help model how volume is a shape's capacity.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. apply the formulas V  = lwh and V = Bh to find volumes of right-rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.  
2. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. complete page three in Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area.
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.

Class Topics: 03.18.15

In Math Six, students completed a Socrative front-loading content for Part Eight - Volume and Surface Area.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. apply the formulas V  = lwh and V = Bh to find volumes of right-rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.  
2. find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.
• Volume Formula Intuition

Class Topics: 03.17.15

In Math Six, students completed the Part Seven - Area in Geometry posttest.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. calculate the area of polygons by composing composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles. 
3. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.  
4. use coordinates to find the length of a side.
5. apply techniques for finding area in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. enjoy the night off.

Class Topics: 03.16.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven - Area in Geometry.  Students worked independently and then with a peer in preparation for tomorrow's Part Seven - Area in Geometry posttest.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.  
3. use coordinates to find the length of a side.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. prepare for Tuesday's Part Seven-Area in Geometry posttest. 

Class Topics: 03.13.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven - Area in Geometry.  Students worked independently to complete a review task dealing with area of various polygons.  Prior to class ending, students checked answers with each other and an answer key provided by Mr. Giomini.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.  
3. use coordinates to find the length of a side.

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

1. prepare for Tuesday's Part Seven-Area in Geometry posttest. 

Class Topics: 03.12.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven - Area in Geometry.  Students received a half sheet of paper that they had to complete with a peer.  All answers needed to be justified in order to be considered.  Once students answered the three questions correctly, they were provided time to work on the evening practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.  
3. use coordinates to find the length of a side.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page 18 in Part Seven - Area in Geometry
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Drawing Polygons

Class Topics: 03.11.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven - Area in Geometry.  Class reviewed using the coordinate plane to calculate area of different polygons.

Students practiced skills in a test-taking situation to help prepare for next week's post test.   Once time expired, Mr. Giomini put them into groups of three to four to compare and discuss answers. Correct answers were shared at the conclusion of class.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.  
3. use coordinates to find the length of a side.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page 17 in Part Seven - Area in Geometry
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Finding Area by Composing and Decomposing Shapes

Class Topics: 03.10.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven - Area in Geometry.  Class reviewed calculating the area of irregular polygons.  Students then worked independently for 10 - 15 minutes to solve the problems pictured below.  Once time expired, Mr. Giomini put them into groups of three to four to compare and discuss answers.  Mr. Giomini circulated around the classroom to dispel any misconceptions.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. calculate area for polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page 16 in Part Seven - Area in Geometry
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Decompose Shapes to Find Area

Class Topics: 03.09.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Class was divided into small groups to calculate the area for polygons such as the one posted below.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. calculate area for polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page 15 in Part Seven - Area in Geometry
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Area of Triangles 2

Area of triangle in grid: Area of triangle in grid

Class Topics: 03.06.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Mr. Giomini modeled the skill for today using the assigned weekend Khan Skill.  Students worked independently to complete a task and then conferred with a peer.  Time was allotted for students to begin on their weekend practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals. 
2. draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices.   
3. use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page 13 in Part Seven - Area in Geometry
2. 45 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Rectangles on the Coordinate Plane

Parallelogram on The Coordinate Plane

Class Topics: 03.05.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Mr. Giomini had students break into two different tasks both dealing with area in geometric shapes.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page twelve in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Area of Trapezoids, Rhombi, and Kites

Class Topics: 03.04.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Mr. Giomini modeled how to find the area of trapezoids.  Students were encouraged to use their note cards to help them practice using the different formulas at home.  Time was provided in class to begin evening practice.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page six in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Area of Parallelograms
• Area of Triangles 

Class Topics: 03.03.15

In Math Six, students continued their work in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Mr. Giomini modeled how to find the area for triangles and trapezoids.  Students were encouraged to use their note cards to help them practice using the different formulas at home.  Phrases that Mr. Giomini uses to aid him in recalling the formulas were shared in class.

Front of Card

Back of Card 

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals.  

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. page seven in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Triangle area proofs: Proving that the area of any triangle is 1/2 b x h

Class Topics: 03.02.15

In Math Six, students began Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  Today's focus was learning and utilizing the formula for area of squares, rectangles, and parallelograms.  Mr. Giomini modeled to the students how he uses index cards to help him review different area formulas for various two-dimensional shapes.

Front side of index card

Back side of above index card

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find the area of polygons and other special quadrilaterals.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. page three in Part Seven: Area in Geometry.  
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Class Topics: 02.27.15

In Math Six, students had shortened class periods today.  Mr. Giomini paired students up and had them complete a brief performance based task that mirrored what students completed for "How Hot Is It?" from the other day.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots.
2. summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.  

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

1. 45 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Class Topics: 02.26.15

In Math Six, students began class by completing a Kahoot that dealt with previously learned content. Mr. Giomini then posted three story problems on the board that students needed to solve and have checked prior to beginning their evening practice.

At the conclusion of class, students saw Mr. Giomini's algorithms to the three problems that were presented to the classroom.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. build on and reinforce their current level of understanding with number systems. 
2. solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations and inequalities. 
3. use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Class Topics: 02.25.15

In Math Six, students had shortened class periods today.  Mr. Giomini discussed and modeled the work for the "How Hot It Is?" performance based task.  The remainder of class was allocated for meaningful practice on Khan Academy.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. build on and reinforce their current level of understanding with number systems.  

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Class Topics: 02.24.15

In Math Six, students had shortened class periods today.  Mr. Giomini reviewed the different parts of an expression.  Students were then provided class time to work on either their "How Hot Is It?" task or their fifteen minutes of purposeful practice on Khan Academy.

Expression terms, factors and coefficients

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. identify parts of an expression using mathematical terms.
2. view one or more parts of an expression as a single entity.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. "How Hot Is It?" performance based task due on Wednesday, February 25. 
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  
• Identifying Parts of Expressions

Class Topics: 02.23.15

In Math Six, students had shortened class periods.  Mr. Giomini had the students complete a Socrative quiz based on an article from Scholastic Math magazine.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100.
2. solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. "How Hot Is It?" performance based task due on Wednesday, February 25. 
2. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

Day of Improvement: 02.20.15

Students,

By now you know that we are not having school today.  This means the responsibility of getting better today falls in your lap.  As I mentioned yesterday, there are several resources that you can utilize in an attempt to better yourself.  Choose a resource or multiple resources to improve your skills today.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Day of Improvement: 02.19.15

Students,

Due to the wind chill, school is cancelled.  However, even with school not being open, use today to improve your math skills with some meaningful practice.  Obviously you can use Khan for a few minutes.   Maybe you have your old packets from previous chapters that you can review.  There are several pretests posted to the blog along with answer keys that can help solidify previous skills.  Or, maybe you want to begin your Expert in a Year quest.  I look forward to hearing what you did with your time when I see you again of Friday.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Class Topics: 02.18.15

In Math Six, students had shortened class periods.  Mr. Giomini discussed the performance based task, "How Hot Is It?" in greater depth and provided class time for the students to work on the task both independently and with a colleague.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. use substitution to determine the solution to an equation.
2. display numerical data.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. pages four and five from Math 6 Practice packet.  
2. "How Hot Is It?" performance based task due on Monday, February 23. 
3. 15 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy.  

I wonder if this type of dedication 

would work in other aspects of life?

Class Topics: 02.17.15

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini introduced the next performance based task, "How Hot Is It?" to the students.  Ten minutes of class time was allotted for the students to begin the task.

Once time expired for the performance based task, Mr. Giomini reviewed exponents with the students.   What exponents represent and how they are simplified was discussed and modeled.  The two Khan Skills for this evening were modeled prior to the students beginning an independent task to close out class.

Writing Algebraic Expressions Word Problem

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to complete...

1. 15 minutes of purposeful practice on Khan Academy.
• Writing Expressions with Exponent Word Problems
• Evaluating Exponent Expression Word Problems
2. "How Hot Is It?" performance based task due on Monday, February 23.  

Day of Improvement: 02.16.15

Students,

Hopefully you were able to complete your 45 minutes of meaningful practice on Khan Academy this weekend.  If you are hanging around the house today bothering your parents, siblings, or both, give them a 15 minute break and continue to hone your mathematical skills by completing some meaningful practice on Khan Academy.

In relentless pursuit of excellence,

Mr. Giomini

Class Topics: 02.13.15

In Math Six today, students were given ten minutes to "clean up" their "Making Towels" performance based task before turning them.  Mr. Giomini provided answer keys for both questions and discussed his algorithms.

To help with weekend practice, Mr. Giomini allowed the students the remaining time to begin their purposeful practice on Khan Academy.

Today's Learning Target(s): The student will be able to...

1. apply and extend previous understanding of multiplying and dividing fractions.
2. compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
3. apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.

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

1. 45 minutes of purposeful practice on Khan Academy.