Middle school math can be daunting for students and parents alike.  Luckily, I'm on a mission to make middle school math MAKE SENSE to your child and to help your child have a little fun along the way.  I enjoy building relationships with my students and use a multi-sensory approach in my lessons, teaching with a lot of hands-on and visual activities.  Practice is necessary but shouldn't be boring, so I often use games and small group work (break out rooms) as ways for learners to gain confidence with new skills.  Classkick and Google Jamboard will be used in some classes as a way for students to independently or collaboratively practice a skill and allow me to provide students with feedback.  Blooket and Gimkit will be used in some classes to play games to practice new skills.  None of these programs require a log in, student account, or email address.

This ongoing class is designed to cover all the standards/skills in the 6th grade math curriculum (as laid out by Common Core State Standards) in 39 lessons.  While using CCSS as a guide to make the course more universal, the class will focus on the standards, not necessarily the strategies (unless they are helpful in building a conceptual understanding of the skill).  Each class will focus on a specific skill and learners will be provided with follow up materials (worksheets or online resources) for extra practice.  I am happy to provide feedback for follow up assignments but due to the drop-in nature of ongoing classes, questions will need to be addressed through learner messages, not in the next class. There will be no formal assessments/grades given.  Parents should determine mastery based on how students do with their independent work/follow up assignments.  Class materials will be created by me or copyrighted materials which I have permission to share.  This is a great course for students that work well at an accelerated  pace.

If you have a question about whether your child is ready for a specific skill, please message me to ask what the pre-requisite knowledge is as there will not be time to do an in-depth review the fifth grade standards.  

The course is split into four quarters with breaks around major U.S. holidays (Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas).  Below is the schedule of skills to be taught.  Throughout the course there will be opportunities for your child to take other classes that teach/review pre-requisite skills related to the skill for the week.  These will be marked with asterisks (*) and listed below the 6th grade schedule of skills for each quarter.

*Students should have mastered 5th grade computation skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers) before the full curriculum course starts as this will be reviewed but not retaught in the 6th grade curriculum*

QUARTER 1 – Place Value & Number Operations – 8 weeks*
Week of Aug. 26 – Lesson 1: Understand Ratios
Week of Sept. 2 – Lesson 2: Generate Equivalent Ratios & Graphing Ratios
Week of Sept. 9 – Lesson 3: Compare Ratios
Week of Sept. 16 – Lesson 4: Understand Rates & Unit Rates
Week of Sept. 23 – Lesson 5: Compare Unit Rates & Solve Unit Rate Problems
Week of Sept. 30 – Lesson 6: Convert Units of Measurement (Customary & Metric)
Week of Oct. 7 – Lesson 7: Decimal Operations
Week of Oct. 14 – Lesson 8: Fractions Operations

QUARTER 2 – Percents & Rational Numbers – 8 weeks
Week of Oct. 21 – Lesson 9: Understand Percent
Week of Oct. 28 – Lesson 10: Relate Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Week of Nov. 4 – Lesson 11: Represent Percents Greater than 100 or Less than 1
Week of Nov. 11 – Lesson 12: Estimate & Find Percent of a Number
Week of Nov. 18 – Lesson 13: Estimate & Find the Whole (Given a Part and the Percent)
Week of Nov. 25 – NO CLASS
Week of Dec. 2 – Lesson 14: Understand Integers
Week of Dec. 9 – Lesson 15: Represent Rational Numbers on the Number Line & Absolute Value
Week of Dec. 16 – Lessons 16 & 17: Represent Rational Numbers on a Coordinate Plane & Find Distance & Represent Polygons on a Coordinate Plane
Week of Dec. 23 – NO CLASS / WINTER BREAK - Check out one of my Winter/Christmas escape rooms!
Week of Dec. 30 – NO CLASS / WINTER BREAK - Check out one of my Winter/Christmas escape rooms!

QUARTER 3 – Algebraic Expressions & Equations – 12 weeks**
Week of Jan. 6 – Lesson 18: Understand & Represent Exponents
Week of Jan. 13 – Lesson 19: Find GCF and LCM
Week of Jan. 20 – Lesson 20: Write & Evaluate Numerical Expressions (Order of Operations)
Week of Jan. 27 – Lesson 21: Write & Evaluate Algebraic Expressions
Week of Feb. 3 – Lesson 22: Generate Equivalent Expressions & Simplify Algebraic Expressions
Week of Feb. 10 – Lesson 23: Understand Equations & Solutions
Week of Feb. 17 – Lesson 24: Write & Solve Addition and Subtraction Equations (using Properties of Equality)
Week of Feb. 24 – Lesson 25: Write & Solve Multiplication and Division Equations (using Properties of Equality)
Week of Mar. 3 – Lesson 26: Write & Solve Equations with Rational Numbers
Week of Mar. 10 – Lesson 27: Understand, Write & Solve Inequalities
Week of Mar. 17 – Lesson 28: Understand Dependent & Independent Variables, Relating Tables & Graphs
Week of Mar. 24 – Lesson 29: Use Patterns to Write & Solve Equations, Relating Equations & Graphs
**Check out my Hands-On Algebra classes to build a strong foundation for algebra before Quarter 3 starts*

QUARTER 4 – Geometry, Data & Statistics – 9 weeks
Week of Apr. 7 – Lesson 30: Find Area of Parallelograms, Rhombuses, and Triangles
Week of Apr. 14 – NO CLASS / SPRING BREAK
Week of Apr. 21 – Lesson 31: Find Area of Trapezoids, Kites, and other Polygons
Week of Apr. 28 – Lesson 32: Represent Solid Figures using Nets
Week of May 5 – Lesson 33: Find Surface Area of Prisms & Pyramids
Week of May 12 – Lesson 34: Find Volume with Fractional Edge Lengths
Week of May 19 – Lesson 35: Recognize Statistical Questions & Summarize Data (Mean, Median, Mode, Range)
Week of May 26 – Lesson 36: Display Data in Box Plots
Week of June 2 – Lesson 37: Display Data in Frequency Tables & Histograms
Week of June 9 – Lesson 38: Summarize Data using Measures of Variability, Choose Appropriate Statistical Measures & Summarize Data Distributions