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Better Lesson: Analyzing and Creating Circle Graphs
Sixth graders will be learning through exploration on how to analyze and create circle graphs and Venn diagrams.
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Better Lesson: Are You a Good Consumer?
Sixth graders look at making wise consumer decisions by figuring out what is the better deal.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Conducting the Survey
What are the procedures for administering the survey? Why is this important? Students conduct survey with other classes.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Revising Questions & Planning the Survey
How can the wording of a question influence how people respond? Students learn about biased and unbiased questions, revise the questions they create in the previous lesson, and agree on procedures for administering the survey.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: What Do We Want to Know About Our Students?
What makes a question a statistical question? Students learn about statistical and non-statistical questions and then use that knowledge to brainstorm survey questions for their classmates.
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Better Lesson: Adding, Subtracting, and Understanding Decimals
Students learn how to properly add and subtract decimal quantities.
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Better Lesson: Area of Composite Shapes
Sixth graders take their knowledge about area of rectangles, squares and triangles and apply it to parallelograms, trapezoids, and composite shapes.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Decimals
Sixth graders fluently add and subtract money with decimals using the standard algorithm.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Fractions
Young scholars add and subtract fractions using a common denominator.
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Better Lesson: Analyze This Part 2!
Srudents connect mean, median, mode and range to real life. It will allow students to make sense of problems by using previously taught strategies.
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Better Lesson: Analyze This! Mean Median Mode and Range
Finding measures of central tendency will be applied to the different graphs throughout this unit.
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Better Lesson: 3rd Day of School
Sixth graders extend and identify the patterns of decreasing time and be able to understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another unit within the same system.
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Better Lesson: 2nd Day of School
In this lesson the students will be working on multiplying and dividing by multiples of 10.
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Better Lesson: 1st Day of School
Sixth graders apply the mathematical practices to solve a problem.
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Better Lesson: Performance Task (2 Days)
This lesson is a performance task based on their learning of ratios. Students will be using their knowledge of ratios and unit rates to create their own pizza.
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Better Lesson: Rational Numbers and Integer Practice
A lesson for students to practice adding integers, defining rational number, and placing rational numbers on a number line. Included on the page is videos and documents to help execute the lesson.
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Better Lesson: What Are Integers?
What are integers? This lesson has students connecting integers with altitude, temperature, and football. These lessons will help students understand integers in multiple contexts. Lesson page includes documents and a video to help...
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Better Lesson: Mean Absolute Deviation. What Does It Mean?
The students will be working with mean and learning about variability. They will be making connections to real life applications to help assist them in making a connection to mean absolute deviation.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property
This lesson will show students how easy mental math can be when using the distributive property.
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Better Lesson: Divisibility Rules
The students will be investigating mathematical rules for division to assist them with fluency. This lesson will be added to their tool box!
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Better Lesson: Solving Percent Problems (Day 2)
Solving percents using real world scenarios.
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Better Lesson: Scale Drawings
This lesson will provide students the opportunity to work with scale drawings as they create their own road trip to see how far they go using a map of the United States.
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Better Lesson: Visually Representing Percent Word Problems (Day 2)
Using a variety of visual representations to solve real world percent problems.
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Better Lesson: Using Rates Stations
Student centered activities based on rates and unit rates!