Checking Grades:
Dear students and guardians, please check grades on StudentVue and ParentVue on a weekly basis to stay up to date on assignments, quizzes, tests, and projects. Late assignments will be accepted only for the quarter that they are assigned. When the quarter is over, late and/or missing work from that quarter will no longer be accepted. All quizzes and tests can be corrected or retaken. However, once the quarter is over, quizzes and tests from that quarter can no longer be corrected or retaken.
6th Grade Math Overview:
As a brief overview, there will be two math journals this year that your student will be completing, and one interactive review notebook:
1. Stepping Stones (Journal A)
2. Stepping Stones (Journal B)
3. Interactive Review Notebook
These journals are used on a daily basis for taking notes, Bell Ringers, Cooperative Learning Group Activities, etc… In addition to the math journals, students in my math class will be completing a math project in May for the STEAM Fair. Students will also be completing assignments, quizzes, and tests throughout the year.
1. Stepping Stones (Journal A)
2. Stepping Stones (Journal B)
3. Interactive Review Notebook
These journals are used on a daily basis for taking notes, Bell Ringers, Cooperative Learning Group Activities, etc… In addition to the math journals, students in my math class will be completing a math project in May for the STEAM Fair. Students will also be completing assignments, quizzes, and tests throughout the year.
Mrs. Decker's Class Syllabus:
There are eight mathematical practices that we will focus using throughout the year:
6th Grade Math Common Core State Standards
I. Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Grading
The 6th grade team has a consistent grading scale we will be using this year. Your student’s math grade will be weighted: 60% Summative Assessments, 30% Formative Assessments, and 10% Participation.
-Summative Assessments include tests, quizzes, projects, and interactive notebooks etc...
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
6th Grade Math Common Core State Standards
I. Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
- Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
- Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
- Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
- Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
- Develop understanding of statistical variability.
- Summarize and describe distributions.
Grading
The 6th grade team has a consistent grading scale we will be using this year. Your student’s math grade will be weighted: 60% Summative Assessments, 30% Formative Assessments, and 10% Participation.
-Summative Assessments include tests, quizzes, projects, and interactive notebooks etc...
- Students can make quiz and test corrections on any assessments. These corrections improve their understanding, their quiz/test score and their math grade.
- I will correct all Blue Pages the day after they are assigned.
- I will correct all the Gray Pages from the previous week on Monday. This will give students the weekend to complete any Gray Pages (Maintaining Concepts and Skills) that were assigned throughout the week.
- Students receive 2 points every day. They can earn extra points for being on task and following our school BEST rules.
- Students lose participation points for off-task behavior, being unprepared, being tardy to class, etc...