MONTH
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CONTENT
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USEFUL
WEBSITES
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August
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Handshake
Problem
Begin
Statistics
- Graphs
as tools to organize data (bar, stem-and-leaf, histogram, circle,
coordinate, line)
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September
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Statistics
- "Data About Us"
- Numerical & categorical
data
- Collect
various student data on line plot graphs
- Mean,
median mode, range
- Selecting
the 'best' average
- Outliers
- Correlation
between 2 sets of data
- Data
samples and populations
- Biased
vs. unbiased questions
- Project
- typical 6th grader or conducting a survey
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October
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Number
Theory - "Prime Time"
- Factors,
multiples, prime and composite
- Greatest
common factor & least common multiple
- Roots & exponents
- Prime
factorization
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November
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Number
Theory cont.
- Order
of Operation
- Order
of Operation
- Project
- special number
Integers
- Adding,
subtracting, multiplying & dividing positive and negative
numbers
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December
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Decimals
- conceptual
- Place
value
- Comparing & ordering
- Rounding
- Terminating
vs. repeating vs. non-terminating decimals
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January
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Decimals
- compuation
- Adding,
subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers with decimals
Fractions
- Conceptual
- Converting
from decimals to fractions
- Equivalent
fractions
- Simplest
form
- Comparing
and ordering
- Mixed
numbers and improper fractions
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February
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Fractions
- Computational
- Adding,
subtracting, muplying and dividing fractions with unlike denominators & mixed
numbers
- Ratios & proportions
Percents
- Conceptual
- Converting
from fraction and decimal into percent
- Percent
as out of 100
- Examples
in the real world
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March
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Percents
- Computational
- Finding
the percent of a number
- Estimating
10%, 1%, etc.
- Calculating
sales tax and discount of an item
- Simple
and compound interest
- Project
- personal finance budget
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April
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Geometry
Basics - "Shapes & Designs"
- Point,
line, plane
- Intersecting
lines and angles
- Interior
angles sums of quadrilaterals & triangles
- Measuring
and constructing acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles
- Convex
and concave polygons
- Regular
and irregular polygons
- Project:
symmetry and tesselation designs
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May
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Area & Perimeter - "Covering & Surrounding"
- Perimeter
of polygons
- Area
of parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids
- Area
of 'composite' shapes
- Curcumference
and area of circles
- Maximizing
and minimizing area of rectangles
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| June |
Probability - "How
Likely is It?"
- Organizing possible
outcomes (lists or tree diagrams)
- Dependent and indepdendent
events
- Experimental vs.
theoretical probability
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Ongoing
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Problem of the Week
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