Math 6A--Ms. Ruzicka

1st and 5th Periods

 

Greetings,

Welcome to Math 6A, I am looking forward to working with your student this year! Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Students should all have a hardcover textbook and a spiral notebook dedicated to Math. Here is a Link to College Preparatory Math--Resources for students and parents.

eBook Link Course 2 (Blue) 1st period

eBook Link Course 2 (Blue) 5th period

eBook Link 1st period

eBook Link 5th period

 

histogram maker--we will use in class on Tuesday, you may want to use it later as well.

 

Scale Activity Use these directions for the end of the year scale activity! Show all your work in your spiral or on a piece of scratch paper.

 

Week of 5/25/15-we will spend this week working on looking at relationships between two variables. Next week we will review algebra tiles and take the year end test Wednesday and Thursday. This is the same test that students took at the beginning of the year.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • No school Memorial Day

Tues
  • 4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships
  • Page 201 : problems 4-29 to 4-33

Wed
  • 4.2.2 Proportional Relationships with Tables
  • Page 205: 4-41 to 4-45

Thur
  • 4.2.3 Unit Rate and Proportional Equations
  • Page 211: 4-50 to 4-54

Fri
  • 4.2.4 Connecting Representations of Proportional Relationships
  • None

 

Week of 5/18/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 3.2.1 Subtraction of Integers
  • Page 143: problems 3-34 to 3-38

Tues
  • 3.2.2 Connecting Addition and Subtraction
  • Page 147: problems 3-46 to 3-50

Wed
  • 3.2.3 Multiplication as Repeated Subtraction
  • Page 152: 3-59 to 3-63:

Thur
  • 3.2.4 Multiplication with Decimals
  • Page 158: 3-73 to 3-77

Fri
  • 3.2.5 Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Integers
  • None

 

Week of 5/11/15

Due to Smarter Balanced Testing we will not have homework for at least the first part of the week. I told students they should take this opportunity to cacth up, make-up Checkpoint quizzes etc.

 

Week of 5/4/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 2.2.2 Adding Integers and Rational Numbers page 88
  • Page 86: problems 2-36 to 2-41

Tues
  • 2.2.3 More Addition of Integers and Rational Numbers (Guest Teacher)

  • Page 92: 2-51 to 2-53, 2-55
    Page 102: 2-81 to 2-84

Wed
  • 2.2.4 Multiplication as Repeated Addition
  • Page 96: 2-62 to 2-66

Thur
  • Review Ratios and Rates

  • Page 112: 2-101 to 2-105

Fri
  • Review Expressions and Equations
  • None

 

Week of 4/27/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 1.2.8 What part is missing? Page 57 and a chunk of the homework problems from 1.2.7 and 1.2.8
  • Page 56: 1-124 to 1-129 (students will have time to do these n class). Page 60: 1-137 to 1-141

Tues
  • 2.1.1 When do decimals repeat? Page 71

  • Page 74: 2-8 to 2-12 plus 2-14 to 2-15

Wed
  • 2.1.2 How can I rewrite a decimal? Page 77
  • Page  82: 2-26 to 2-30

Thur
  • 2.2.1 How can I build it? Page 84 (Guest Teacher)
  • None

Fri
  • No School Progress Reports

 

Week of 4/20/15--Packets are tan this week

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Finish cell phone problem. Discuss providing evidence for thinking.
  • More percent problems 5-9, see back of the first page of the homework packet.

Tues
  • Background lesson for Performance Task, start task on computer
  • Page : Problems 1-18 to 1-22, plus percent problems # 11 in packet

Wed
  • Continue task (short periods early release)
  • Page  : 1-35 to 1-39, plus percent problems #s 12 and 13 in packet

Thur
  • Continue task
  • Page  :1-90 to 1-94, plus percent problem #s 14 and 15

Fri
  • Complete task as necessary.
  • None unless working on a specific concept.

 

Week of 4/13/15--Students were given a username and password for the 7th grade book. They were also checked out a hardcover 7th grade book. Most of them plan to leave the hardcover book at home and use their iPad at school. There are some cool tools for probability on the iPad!

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 1.2.1 What are the chances? page 26
  • Page 30: Problems 1-57 to 1-62--they are in the packet and students can do directly on the page.

Tues
  • 1.2.2 How can I use probability to make predictions? page 32
  • Page 36: Problems 1-70 to 1-74

Wed
  • 1.2.3 How can I change the chances? page 38
  • Page 41 1-80, 1-81, 1-83, 1-84 (skip 1-82)

Thur
  • Checkpoint Quizzes 9A and 9B, and background for Cell Phone Performance Task
  • Percent problems practice, separate work sheet

Fri
  • Cell Phone Performance Task
  • None unless working on Checkpoints

 

Week of 4/6/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 9.2.4 How does it grow? Page 457

  • Page 455: 9-61 to 9-64

Tues
  • A variety of percent problems

  • Page 455: 9-65, 9-66, 9-67, 9-69

Wed
  • Chapter 9 Wrap Up
  • Page 460: 9-77, 9-78, 9-79 (CP 9B)

Thur
  • Smarter Balance Practice link
  • Page 446: problem 9-39 (CP 9A)

Fri

  • Finish Smarter Balance Practice

  • Checkpoint 9A Data and 9B solving one step equations

 

 

Week of 3/30/15--Packets are Pink this week. Students got back their quiz for Checkpoints 7B area and perimeter, 8A Expressions and Distributive Property, and 8B Dividing Fractions and Decimals. Students are allowed (and encouraged) to retake any of the 3 parts to get full credit.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 9.1.1 Volume of a Rectangular Prism page 433

  • Page 436: 9-10 to 9-14

Tues
  • 9.1.2 Nets and Surface Area page 437

  • Page 441: 9-24 to 9-28

Wed
  • 9.2.1 Multiplicative Growth and Percents page 443
  • Page 445: 9-35 to 9-39

Thur
  • 9.2.2 Composition and Decomposition of Percents page 447
  • Page 449: 9-44 to 9-48

Fri
  • 9.2.3 Percent Discounts page 451
  • None, unless you have checkpoint quizzes to take care of

Week of 3/16/15--Packets are Yellow this week.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 8.3.1 Writing Multiplication Equations page 409

  • Page 411: 8-90 to 8-94

Tues
  • 8.3.2 What is the relationship page 412

  • Pages 415-416: 8-101 to 8-105

Wed
  • 8.3.3 How can I compare them? page 417

  • Page 421-422: 8-116 to 8-120

Thur
  • Chapter 8 Closure Activities
  • Finish Closure Problems not done in class 8-121 to 8-128 on pages 424 to 426

Fri
  • TEST: Checkpoint 7B Area and Perimeter of Quadrilaterals and Triangles p. 493, Checkpoint 8A Variable Expressions (Distributive Property) p. 496, 8B Division of Fractions and Decimals p 497
  • None, have a wonderful spring break!

 

Week of 3/9/15--Due to the short week no new packets this week, students are still checking in with me for make up work and test retakes. All work needs to be done by Wednesday 3/11.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 8.2.1 Statistical Questions
  • Page 400 problem 8-60 and page 404 problems 8-66 to 8-70

Tues
  • Display results from Statistical Questions
  • Page 407 problems 8-74 to 8-80

Wed
  • Wrap up statistics with review and practice
  • None--rest up and get ready for solving equations in the new trimester!

Thur
  • No school grading day

Fri
  • No school professional development day

 

Week of 3/2/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 8.1.1 Measures of Central Tendency page 379

  • Page 381: 8-7 to 8-11

Tues
  • 8.1.2 Choosing Mean or Median page 382
  • Page 387: 8-20, 8-21, 8-22, 8-23, 8-24, 8-25, 8-26, 8-28 (skip 8-27 and 8-29)

Wed

  • 8.1.3 Shape and Spread page 389
  • Page 393: 8-39 to 8-43

Thur
  • 8.1.4 Box Plots and Interquartile range page 394

  • Page 398: 8-51, 8-52, 8-53, 8-54, 8-55, 8-56, 8-57, 8-59

Fri

  • 8.1.5 Comparing and Choosing Representationspage 401
  • Review Checkpoint 7B on page 492: Dividing Fractions and Decimals

 

Week of 2/16/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon

Tues
  • 7.2.2 Another Strategy for Dividing Fractions page 335
  • Page 3 38: 7-52 to 7-56

Wed
  • 7.2.3 Division with Fractions and Decimals 339
  • Page 341: 7-64 to 7-68

Thur
  • 7.2.4 Fraction Division as Ratios page 343
  • Page 346: 7-74 to 7-78

Fri
  • Checkpoints # 6 Locating points on a number line and coordinate graph p. 488, 7A Multiplication of Fractions and Decimals p. 490
  • Any make-up work

 

Week of 2/9/15--Packets are Green this week. We will do 3 lessons related to rate and then return to Fraction and Decimal division.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 7.1.1 Comparing Rates page 317

  • Page 320: 7-9 to 7-13

Tues
  • 7.1.2 Comparing Rates with Tables and Graphs page 322
  • Page 325: 7-19 to 7-23

Wed
  • 7.1.3 Unit Rates page 326
  • Page 329: 7-30 to 7-34

Thur
  • 7.2.1 Analyzing Strategies for Dividing Fractions page 330
  • Page 333: 7-44 to 7-47

Fri
  • 7.2.2 Another Strategy for Dividing Fractions page 335

 

 

Week of 2/2/15-Ms. Ruzicka will be at a Science workshop Monday-Wednesday. Ms. Montoya will be my guest teacher. She is a former middle school math teacher so the students will continue to move forward. Packets are blue this week.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 6.2.4 How can I rewrite it? page 300

  • Page 299: 6-96 to 6-100

Tues
  • 6.2.5 What can a variable represent? page 305—problem 6-111 will be done on graph paper in packet.
  • Page 304: 6-106 to 6-110

Wed

  • Chapter Closure Activities: Area and Perimeter Fold Up Book and Worksheet
  • Page 307: 6-115 to 6-119

Thur
  • Review including working on problems on page 310-311
  • Finish closure problems on page 310: 6-120 to 6-127

Fri
  • Chapter 6 Quiz
  • None

 

Week of 1/26/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Finish 6.1.4 page 278 and division practice

  • Page 282: 6-59, 6-60

  • Page 288: 6-73, 6-76, 6-77

Tues
  • 6.2.1 How do I calculate it? page 283
  • Page 288: 6-69, 6-70, 6-71, 6-72, 6-74, 6-76

Wed
  • 6.2.2 What is the area? page 290
  • Page 294: 6-86 to 6-90

Thur
  • 6.2.3 What is a variable? Page 295
  • None unless you have test corrections to work on.

Fri
  • No School Staff Development

 

Week of 1/19/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • No School MLK Day

Tues
  • 6.1.3 How many pieces? What is the whole?
  • Page 275 6-38 to 6-42

Wed
  • Finish 6.1.3
  • Page 280 6-51 to 6-55, skip 6-56, 6-57 and 6-58

Thur
  • 6.1.4
  • None unless you have corrections to do for the Chapter 5 test

Fri
  • No School 6 week progress reports

 

 

Week of 1/12/15

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Review Chapter 5, Study Guide and Chapter Closure

  • Finish Chapter Closure Pages 253-254: 5-106 to 5-113, Check your answersJ

Tues

  • Quiz: Checkpoint #4 Add/Subtract mixed numbers (p. 484) AND #5 Portion Web (p. 486), there will also be couple of fraction multiplication and area (parallelogram and triangle) problems

  • Page 265: Skip 6-5, Do 6-6, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-11

Wed
  • 6.1.1 How can I share it equally?

  • Page 265: 6-5, 6-10, 6-12, 6-13, 6-14

Thur
  • 6.1.2 What does it mean to divide?
  • Page 270: 6-21-6-25

Fri
  • 6.1.3 How many pieces? What is the whole? (postponed until Tuesday)
  • Page 274: 6-33 to 6-37 due on TUESDAY (own paper)

 

Week of 1/5/15--Any test retakes from Chapter 4 should be taken care of this week!

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 5.3.1 Rearranging Areas page 235

  • Page 237: 5-71 to 5-75

Tues
  • 5.3.2 Area of a parallelogram page 239

  • Page 243: 5-80 to 5-84

Wed

  • 5.3.3 Area of a triangle page 244

  • Page 247: 5-91 to 5-95

Thur
  • 5.3.4 Area of a trapezoid page 248

  • Page 251: 5-101 to 5-105

Fri
  • Practice with Area and Review

  • None unless you need to review for Checkpoints:
    #4 Add/Subtract mixed numbers (p. 484), #5 Portion Web (p. 486)

 

Week of 12/15/14--Packets are yellow this week

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 5.1.4 What if they are greater than one? Page 221
  • Page 224: 5-34 to 5-38

Tues
  • 5.2.1 Does the answer make sense? page 225
  • Test Corrections—follow directions!
  • should be done in spiral
  • should correct all questions that lost points--number each problem correctly
  • if the problem has a diagram it should be copied into the spiral

Wed
  • Continue 5.2.1

  • Page 228: 5-48 to 5-52

Thur
  • 5.2.2 How will multiplying change my number? Page 230
  • Page 234: 5-61 to 5-65

Fri
  • Wrap up section 5.2.2
  • Have a wonderful winter break!

 

Week of 12/8/14--Packets are tan this week

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Chapter Review—Lots of Practice
  • Chapter Closure page 204-205: 4-86, 4-87, 4-88, 4-89, 4-90, 4-91 CHECK your answers on pages 207-208

Tues
  • Chapter 4 Quiz—Expressions and Ratios

  • Page 213: 5-5, 5-6, 5-7, 5-8

Wed
  • 5.1.1 How can I describe it? Problems

  • Page 213: 5-4 AND

  • Page 216: 5-13, 5-15, 5-16, 5-17

Thur
  • 5.1.2 How big is it?

  • Page 216: 5-14

  • Page 219 5-24 to 5-28

Fri
  • 5.1.3 How can I calculate it without drawing?
  • None

 

Week of 12/1/14--Packets are pink this week

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • No school for students--teacher staff development day

Tues
  • 4.2.1 Enlarging Two-Dimensional Shapes p. 185

  • Page 188: 4-47 to 4-51, you don’t need to do a portion web for 4-51, just find

Wed
  • 4.2.2 Enlarging and Reducing Figures p. 189

  • Page 192: 4-58 to 4-62, see page 170 for help with long division

Thur

  • 4.2.3 Enlargement and Reduction Ratios p. 193

  • Page 196-197: 4-70 to 4-74, see page 182 for help adding/subtracting mixed number

Fri
  • 4.2.4 Ratios in Other Situations p. 198
  • None

 

Week of 11/17/14--Packets are Blue this week. Students will get their quizzes back on Monday, overall students did well--individual students should check with me if they would like to redo any part of the test.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 4.1.1 What if I do not do a length? page 167

  • Page 170-171: 4-7 to 4-11

Tues
  • 4.1.2 How many ways can I represent it? page 172

  • Page 174-176: 4-16 to 4-20

Wed
  • 4.1.3 How can I describe any figure? Page 177

  • Page 182-183: 4-34 to 4-38

Thur

  • 4.1.3 Continues

  • Page 183-184: 4-39 to 4-43

Fri
  • Adding and subtracting fractions quiz. Expression practice.
  • None

 

Week of 11/10/14--Packets are Yellow this week

Classwork

Homework

Mon

  • No school parent conferences

Tues

  • No school Veterans’ Day

Wed
  • Review—Study Guide and Chapter Closure (we’ll start in class)

  • Finish Chapter Closure: Page 157-158:  3-133, 3-134, 3-135, 3-136, 3-138, 3-139, 3-140, 3-141

Thur
  • Review and Integer Scenarios

  • Page 155: 3-128 to 3-132 and Study as needed for quiz on Friday

Fri
  • Chapter 3 Quiz
  • None

 

Week of 11/3/14--Packets are pink this week. We took a quiz on decimals (rounding/ordering and adding/subtracting on Friday. Students received their quiz back today, it shows up as two scores in the gradebook. They are welcome to redo.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Lots of practice with fractions, decimals and percents, some quick, some harder
  • Finish problems 1-24 from page 9 in packet, either in spiral or pink homework packet.
  • Read page 133 in book

Tues
  • 3.2.1 Addition, Subtraction, and Opposites page 135
  • Page 139 problems 3-94 to 3-98

Wed
  • 3.2.2 Locating Negative Numbers page 140
  • Page 143 problems 3-106 to 3-110

Thur
  • 3.2.3 Absolute Value page 145
  • Page 150 3-118 to 3-122

Fri
  • 3.2.4 Length on a Coordinate Graph
  • None, enjoy your LONG weekend!

 

 

Week of 10/27/14--Packets are green this week. Homework problems that are underlined should be done on "special" paper in the homework packet. Students will get Chapter 2 tests back on Monday, test corrections will be due Wednesday. Students scoring less than 28/32 may study an retake problems to raise grade to a 28. Note: We will have a checkpoint quiz on rounding, ordering, and adding/subtracting decimals. If you need additional work you can find practice (and answers) on pages 478-481 in our book.

Classwork

Homework

Mon

  • Finish 3.1.3 How are the representations related?

    P 111

  • In class pages 116-117: 3-45, 3-46, 3-47, 3-50, 3-51, 3-52

    Home pages 116-117: 3-48, 3-49, and 3-53, 3-54

Tues
  • 3.1.4 What is the Connection? P. 118
  • Page 121 3-62, 3-63, 3-64, 3-65, 3-66

Wed
  • 3.1.5 Is there a more efficient way? P. 123
  • Page 127 3-73, 3-74, 3-76, 3-77

Thur
  • 3.1.6 How else can I relate the quantities? P. 129
  • Page 133 3-84, 3-85, 3-86, 3-87, 3-88

Fri

  • Wrap up Investigation 3.1

    Checkpoint 1 & 2 Quiz
  • None

 

Week of 10/20/14--Packets are blue this week. We will have a test on Chapter 2 on Tuesday and then move on to Chapter 3 about portions and integers.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Review for Chapter 2 Test--see study guide in the blue packet
  • Chapter Closure on pages 91-93, students should also check their answer on pages 95-96

Tues

  • Chapter 2 Test

  • Page 103-104: 3-13, 3-14, 3-15, 3-17, 3-18

Wed

  • 3.1.1 Are they the same? P. 99

  • Page 103, 104, 105: 3-12, 3-16, 3-19, 3-20, 3-21

Thur

  • 3.1.2 How can I describe a portion? P. 106

  • Page 110: 3-31 to 3-35

Fri
  • 3.1.3 How are the representations related? P. 111
  • None

 

 

Week of 10/13/14--Packets are yellow this week (my apologies for not getting last week's packet information, the short week flew by). Midterm progress reports included Chapter 1 Tests and retakes and homework through 10/3. Pink packets from last week will be the first assignment in the second 6 weeks.

Classwork

Homework

Mon

  • 2.3.1 How can I make the largest area? P. 76

  • Page 78, 2-55 to 2-59

Tues

  • 2.3.2 How can I find products efficiently? P. 79
  • Page 82, 2-65 to 2-69

Wed

  • 2.3.3 How can I understand products? P. 83

  • Page 82, 2-75 to 2-79

Thur

  • 2.3.4 How can I rewrite products? P. 86

  • Page 88, 2-86 to 2-90

Fri
  • Wrap up section 2.3
  • None

 

Week of 9/29/14--Packets are purple this week. I am working on correcting quizzes from Thursday, there are a couple of students who still need to finish. My plan is to hand them back Wednesday and give students directions for test corrections.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 2.1.1 Dot Plots and Bar Graphs

  • Page 57: 2-6 to 2-10

Tues
  • 2.1.2 Histograms and Stem-and-Leaf Plots

  • Page 61: 2-15 to 2-19

Wed
  • Wrap up 2.1.1 and 2.1.2
  • Test Corrections if needed

Thur
  • 2.2.1 Exploring Area

  • Page 65: 2-24 to 2-28

Fri
  • 2.2.2 Square Units and Area of Rectangles
  • None

 

Week of 9/22/14--Packet is Salmon this week.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • Practice with Prime Factorization

  • Page 48: 1-95 to 1-100

Tues
  • Introductory Probability Activity from 7th Grade Book (we'll do more later in the year)

  • Read page 478 and DO page 479 1-6 and 11-16

Wed
  • Review for quiz

  • Study for quiz

Thur
  • Quiz
  • None

Fri
  • CY We Walk no classes

 

Week of 9/15/14 Packets are blue this week. All homework should be done in the packet--I have included addtional graph paper. All problems are from the student textbook. I have also activated student e-book accounts, students were given a user name and password that is taped into their agenda planner. The link to the book can be accessed at the link above.

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • 1.2.1 How can I represent It? page 27

  • Page 29: 1-46 to 1-50 (sketch a picture for 1-48)

Tues

  • 1.2.2 How do they compare? page 30

  • Page 33: 1-57, 1-58, 1-60, 1-61, (note skip 1-59)

Wed

  • 1.2.3 What can a rectangular array show? page 35

  • Page 38: 1-68 to 1-72

Thur

  • 1.2.4 How can I organize information? page 39

  • Page 44: 1-85, 1-88, 1-90, 1-91, 1-92

Fri
  • Continue 1.2.4 What can a rectangular array show? page 39
  • None

 

Week of 9/8/14 Students received a pink packet on Monday with the homework listed for the week. Homework problems will be from the book on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and completed in the pink packet. Students were checked out a Course 1 book (red) on Tuesday. I will work on getting students their e-book user name and password in the next day or two.

Classwork

Homework

Mon

  • Finish pre-assessment or Mathography
  • Mathography (white) if not done in class (due Fri)
  • Parent Letter (yellow) due Thursday

Tues

  • 1.1.2 How does it change? page 7

  • Page 10 problems 1-10 to 1-14, do in Pink Packet

Wed

  • 1.1.3 How does it grow? page 12

  • Page 15 problems 1-19 to 1-23, do in Pink Packet

Thur

  • 1.1.4 How can I organize information? page 17

  • Page 21 problems 1-28 to 1-32, do in Pink Packet

Fri
  • Finish 1.1.4
  • None

 

Week of 9/1/14

Classwork

Homework

Mon
  • No School Labor Day Holiday

Tues
  • No School Teacher Work Day
  • Watermelon Social at 6:30

Wed
  • 6th Grade Only Web Day with 20 minute classes in the afternoon. People Bingo
  • None

Thur
  • Pre-test for Math 6A
  • None

Fri
  • Complete Pre-test for 6A
  • None--enjoy your weekend!

 

Classwork

Homework

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thur

Fri