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Better Lesson: Reading and Writing With Decimals
Knowing how to read and write decimals is a life skill.
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Better Lesson: Multiplying Decimals by Whole Numbers
Multiplying decimals is a life skilled used in purchasing goods, cooking, and spending money.
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Better Lesson: Review & Assessment 6.ns.a.1 and 6.ns.b.4
This lesson brings all the pieces together to have students show the how's and why's by using GCF,LCM, Distributive property and dividing fractions.
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Better Lesson: Dividing Fractions Within Word Problems
This lesson completes the conceptual understanding of dividing with fractions by using it with real life problems.
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Better Lesson: Dividing Fractions Stations
Computing with fractions allows students to develop a strong number sense
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Better Lesson: Dividing Fractions
Developing a concrete and conceptual way to divide fractions helps students understand the "why" part of the process.
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Better Lesson: Benchmark Fractions and More
When students understand how to use their benchmark fractions they can work more fluently to compute, compare, and order them.
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Better Lesson: Lcm Stations Activity
Learning about factors and multiples allows students to see number relationships and apply those number relationships to multiplication and division.
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Better Lesson: Checking Your Quotient
Making connections between multiplication, the distributive property, and division will help students learn to divide with ease.
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Better Lesson: Division of Multi Digit Numbers
Practice makes perfect and in this lesson students will be practicing long division using the standard algorithm plus they will be interpreting remainders!
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Better Lesson: What's Really Going on With Division?
Sixth graders will be using stations to develop an understanding of division.
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Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
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Better Lesson: Remembering Summer
Sixth graders will be working in stations creating a summer scene, working on basic math facts, and exploring SMP 2!
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Better Lesson: Learning About Stations
Using stations in class is a great way to work with the students in small groups while still engaging them in mathematical problems.
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Better Lesson: Box and Whiskers Activity
The students will be working in stations to construct and analyze box plots. All activities are of high interest and rich in content.
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Better Lesson: Histogram Activity
Sixth graders will see how an actuary uses histograms to analyze the frequency of events to determine risk.
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Better Lesson: Review 3: Who's Faster? Comparing Ratios & Rates
Who's faster? What is the better deal? How do you know? Students apply their knowledge of ratios and rates in order to determine how they relate to each other.
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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 instructional activity, and agree on procedures for administering the...
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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
Learners 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.