GeorgetownInternationalAcademyUnitPlan20142015UnderstandingbyDesign

Teacher:
M.Hill
Subject:
Math
Grade:
6

Topic:
TheNumberSystem:
Operations
StartDate:
August24,2015
EndDate:
October2,2015
DesiredOutcome

Goals:
MACC.6.NS.1
MACC.6.NS.2
MACC.6.NS.3
MACC.6.NS.4

Understandings

Studentswillunderstandthat
Themagnitudeofnumbersaffectstheoutcomeofoperations
onthem.
Factorsandmultiplescanbeusedtosolverealworld
problems.
Decimalcomputationisnecessarytosolverealworld
applicationproblems.

EssentialQuestions:
1.HowcanIexplainandjustifyproceduresforadding,
subtracting,multiplying,anddividingfractionsanddecimals?
2.Whenandwhywoulditbeusefultoknowthegreatest
commonfactorofasetofnumbers?
3.HowcanImultiplyanddividefractionsanddecimals
efficiently?

Knowledge&Skills
Studentswillknowandbeableto

fluentlydividemultidigitnumbersusingthestandardalgorithm.
fluentlyadd,subtract,multiply,anddividemultidigitdecimalsusingthestandardalgorithmforeachoperation.
solverealworldproblemsinvolvingmultiplicationanddivisionoffractionsanddecimals.
findthegreatestcommonfactoroftwowholenumberslessthanorequalto100andtheleastcommonmultipleoftwo
wholenumberslessthanorequalto12.
usethedistributivepropertytoexpressasumoftwowholenumbers1100withacommonfactorasamultipleofasumoftwo
wholenumberswithnocommonfactor.

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PerformanceTasks:

AssessmentEvidence
AdditionalEvidence:

1.Studentswillextendtheirpreviousunderstandingof
multiplicationanddivisiontodividefractionsbyfractions.
2.Studentswilldeterminequotientsthroughvisualmodels,
suchasbardiagrams,tapediagrams,arrays,andnumberline
diagrams.
3.Studentswillconstructdivisionstoriesandsolveword
problemsinvolvingdivisionoffractions.
4.Studentswillrevisitalldecimaloperations.
5.Studentswillfindthatsumsanddifferencesoflargemixed
numberscanbemoreefficientlydeterminedbyfirstconverting
toadecimalandthenapplyingthestandardalgorithms.
6.Studentswillapplyestimationtoplacevalueanddetermine
thatthestandardalgorithmissimplyatallysystemarrangedin
placevaluecolumns.
7.Studentswillmakeconnectionstodivisionoffractionsand
relyonmentalmathstrategiesinordertoimplementthe
divisionalgorithmwhenfindingthequotientsofdecimals.
8.StudentswillexploreanddiscoverthatEuclidsAlgorithmis
amoreefficientmeanstofindingthegreatestcommonfactorof
largernumbersanddeterminethatEuclidsAlgorithmisbased
onlongdivision.

1.Diagnosticpreassessment
2.WrittenresponsestoquestionsrelatingtoBigIdeasand
EssentialQuestions
3.Weeklyhomeworktoassessstudentsunderstandingof
conceptscoveredinclass
4.Vocabularyreviews
5.Notebookchecks
6.Weeklylessonreviewsandquizzes
7.Mathdrills
8.Teachercreatedrubrics
9.Unitreviews,practicetests,andaccompanyingtests

LearningPlan
LearningActivities:
1.Studentswillfindthedifferenceinlengthoftimestothenearesthundredthofasecondtoruna100meterrace.
2.Studentswillacreatevisualvocabulary,definitions,writtenintheappropriatemathvernacular.
3.Studentswillreinforcetheclassificationofnumbersbytheirpropertiesbymakingadiagramandcomparethistothe
classificationoflivingthings.
4.Studentswillcomparesquaremilesofneighboringstates/countries.
5.StudentswilluseaspreadsheettotrackthenumberofmedalstheUSTeamwonatthe2014Olympics.

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LearningMaterialsandResources

TechnologyIntegration

*Textbooks
*Digitalinteractivenotebooks
*Digitalinteractivenotebooks
*IXL
*IXL

*Enrichmentworksheets
*TheDecimalCruncher:websitefordecimaladdition,
subtraction,multiplication,anddivision
http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/02decimals/decimalscrun
cheraddition.html
*BBCDivisionStrategyPractice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/division
/written/game.shtml
*LearnAlbertaDivisionofWholeNumbersVideoTutorial
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html?goLess
on=9
*NCTMIlluminations:TheFactorGame
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L620
*LearnAlbertaSpyGuysFactors,Multiples,andPrime
FactorizationVideoLesson
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/index.ht
ml?page=lessons&lesson=m6lessonshell07.swf