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Math 6A--Ms. Ruzicka

2nd and 3rd Periods

Greetings,

Summer Practice Sections A-F and Summer Practice Sections G-M

Welcome to Math 6A, I am looking forward to working with your student this year! You can find a list of the topics we'll be covering this year here. 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.

Links to e-book for access on iPads or at home.

NEW Link 2nd period Use for Blue book with your new user name and password

NEW Link 3rd period Use for Blue book with your new user name and password

NEW Link

2nd period link to e-book

3rd period link to ebook

Week of 5/30/16--Packets are blue this week! Ms. Ruzicka will be out all week. Mrs. Montoya will be the guest teacher all week. She is a former math teacher!

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 5/30	No School Memorial Day
Tuesday 5/31	4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships	Page 201: problems 4-29 to 4-33	/4
Wednesday 6/1	4.2.2 Proportional Relationships with Tables and Graphs	Page 205: 4-41, 4-42, 4-43, skip 4-44 and do 4-45	/4
Thursday 6/2	4.2.3 Unit Rate and Proportional Equations	Page 211: 4-50 to 4-54	/4
Friday 6/3	4.2.4 Connecting Representations of Proportional Relationships	None
		Completion	/12
		Quality	/4
		Total	/16

Week of 5/23/16--Packets are tan this week!

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 5/23	3.2.4 Multiplication with Decimals	Page 152: 3-59 to 3-63:	/4
Tuesday 5/24	3.2.5 Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Integers	Page 158: 3-73 to 3-77	/4
Wednesday 5/25	3.3.1 How can I divide?	Page 161: 3-82 to 3-86	/4
Thursday 5/26	3.3.2 Why would I use decimals?	Page 166: 3-93 to 3-97	/4
Friday 5/27	3.3.3 How can I simplify numerical expressions?	None
		Completion	/16
		Quality	/4
		Total	/20

Week of 5/16/16--Packets are yellow this week!

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 5/16	4.1.1 Similar Figures	Page 191: 4-6 c, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, 4-10 a-c	/4
Tuesday 5/17	4.1.2 Scale Drawings	Page 194: 4-16 to 4-20	/4
Wednesday 5/18	3.2.1 Subtraction of Integers	Page 143: problems 3-34 to 3-38	/4
Thursday 5/19	3.2.2 Connecting Addition and Subtraction	Page 147: problems 3-46 to 3-50	/4
Friday 5/20	3.2.3 Multiplication as Repeated Subtraction	None
		Completion	/16
		Quality	/4
		Total	/20

Week of 5/2/16--Packets are yellow this week!

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 5/2	Download OAKS calculator to iPad—use this calculator this week, Practice using equation editor, Practice “special” effects	Page 96: 2-62 to 2-66 Section 6.2.7 problem 6-139	/4
Tuesday 5/3	Performance Task practice	Page 112: 2-101 to 2-105 Problem 9-92 in section 9.2.4	/4
Wednesday 5/4	Review Ratios and Rates and practice test	Problem 1-141 in section 1.2.8	/4
Thursday 5/5	Review solving one step equations and practice test	None unless you’re gone at track meet—then do practice solving one step equations sheet in packet
Friday 5/6	No school—progress report grading	None—enjoy your 3 day weekend, get a good night’s sleep Sunday!
		Completion	/12
		Quality	/4
		Total	/16

Week of 4/25/16--Packets are green this week!

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 4/25	2.1.1 When do decimals repeat? Page 71	Page 74: 2-8 to 2-12 plus 2-14 to 2-15	/4
Tuesday 4/26	2.2.1 How can I build it? Page 84	Page 82: 2-26 to 2-30	/4
Wednesday 4/27	2.2.2 Adding Integers and Rational Numbers page 88	Page 86: problems 2-36 to 2-41	/4
Thursday 4/28	2.2.3 More Addition of Integers and Rational Numbers	Page 92: 2-51 to 2-53, 2-55 Page 102: 2-81 to 2-84	/4
Friday 4/29	2.2.4 Multiplication as Repeated Addition	None
		Completion	/16
		Quality	/4
		Total	/20

Week of 4/18/16--I will work on getting my grades updated in the next day or so. Students have received all work back from me that was turned in before the weekend.

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 4/18	1.2.1 What are the chances? page 26	Page 30: Problems 1-57 to 1-62	/4	/20
Tuesday 4/19	Probability Fun!	None
Wednesday 4/20	1.2.2 How can I use probability to make predictions? page 32	Page 36: Problems 1-70 to 1-74	/4	/9
Thursday 4/21	1.2.3 How can I change the chances? page 38	Page 41 1-80, 1-81, 1-83, 1-84 (skip 1-82)	/4	/8
Friday 4/22	1.2.7 and 1.2.8 Compound Probability and Subtracting Probabilities	None


		Completion	/12
		Quality	/4
		Total	/16

My apologies for not posting CW and HW for the last two weeks! I'll keep the website more up to date.

Week of 4/11/16

Day	Class work	Homework	Points	Correct
Monday 4/11	9.2.1 Multiplicative Growth and Percents page 443	Page 445: 9-35 to 9-38 Page 460 problem 9-79 CHECK answers this is checkpoint 9B.	/4	/15 /6
Tuesday 4/12	9.2.2 Composition and Decomposition of Percents page 447	Page 449: 9-44 to 9-48	/4	/13
Wednesday 4/13	9.2.3 Percent Discounts	Page 454: 9-60, 9-61, 9-62, 9-63, 9-64, 9-67, 9-68	/4	/18
Thursday 4/14	Checkpoint 9B and any checkpoint retakes	Page 459 9-75 to 9-78	/4	/9
Friday 4/15	9.2.4 Simple Interest and Tips—we will turn in 6th grade book and check out 7th!	None

		Completion	/16
		Quality	/4
		Total	/20

Week of 4/4/16

Day	Class work	Homework	Points
Monday 4/4	Finish up Data—represent data from Statistical Questions	9-12, 9-28, 9-39—study 9-39 if necessary for Checkpoint 9A Quiz Friday
Tuesday 4/5	Practice with Distributive Property and Factoring (Checkpoint 8A) and Dividing Fractions (Checkpoint 8B)	8-60 and 8-120 study for Checkpoint Quiz Friday
Wednesday 4/6	9.1.1 Volume of a Rectangular Prism page 433	Page 436: 9-10, 9-11, 9-13 and 9-14	/4
Thursday 4/7	9.1.2 Nets and Surface Area page 437	Page 441: 9-24, 9-25, 9-26
Friday 4/8	Quiz with 3 Checkpoints: 8A Rewriting and Evaluating Variable Expressions 8B Division of Fractions and Decimals 9A Histograms and Box plots	None relax!
		Completion	/16
		Quality	/4
		Total	/20

Week of 3/14

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	8.1.3 Shape and Spread page 389	Page 387: 8-20, 8-21, 8-22, 8-23, 8-24, 8-25, 8-26, 8-28 a & c (skip 8-27 and 8-29)
Tues	8.1.4 Box Plots and Interquartile range page 394	Page 393: 8-39 to 8-43
Wed	8.1.5 Comparing and Choosing Representations page 401	None
Thur	No School Trimester Grading Day
Fri	No School Professional Development Day

Week of 3/7

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	7.3.4 Writing Algebraic Equations and Inequalities page 363	Page 361: 7-107 to 7-111
Tues	Chapter Closure and Rates Practice	Page 368: Read carefully, I skipped some problems: 7-121, 7-122, 7-125, 7-128, 7-129
Wed	Chapter 7 Exit—Focus on Ratios and Expressions (Fraction Division is a later Checkpoint)	Page 368: 7-123, 7-124, 7-126, 7-127
Thur	8.1.1 How can I describe the data? page 379	Page 381: 8-7, 8-8, 8-10 and 8-11. Please look at and think about 8-9
Fri	8.1.2 What is a typical value? page 382	None

Week of 2/29

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	7.2.4 Fraction Division as Ratios page 343	Page 341: 7-64 to 7-68
Tues	Lots of fraction and decimal division Portion Web Checkpoint #5	Page 346: 7-74 to 7-78 Review Problem 5-103 on page 252 (section 5.3.4)
Wed	7.3.1 Why does it work? Inverse Operations	Page 351: 7-86 to 7-90
Thur	7.3.2 How Can I Write It? Distributive	Page 356: 7-96-7-100
Fri	7.3.3 How Can I Talk About It? Distributive Property	None

Week of 2/22--Packets are Green

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Finish 7.1.2 Comparing Rates with Tables and Graphs page 322--in yellow packet from last week	Test Corrections on a separate piece of paper turn in tomorrow
Tues	7.1.3 Unit Rates page 326	Page 329: 7-30 to 7-34
Wed	7.2.1 Analyzing Strategies for Dividing Fractions page 330	Page 333: 7-44 to 7-47
Thur	7.2.2 Another Strategy for Dividing Fractions page 335	Page 338: 7-52 to 7-56
Fri	7.2.3 Division with Fractions and Decimals 339	None

Week of 2/8/16--Packets are tan this week. Given the timing of the President's Day holiday we will have a quiz on Chapter 6 next week--on Tuesday. So students will keep their packet to study for the quiz Tuesday.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	6.2.3 What is a variable? Page 295 Turn in blue packet from last week.	Page 294: 6-86 to 6-90
Tues	6.2.4 How can I rewrite it? page 300	Page 299: 6-96 to 6-100
Wed	6.2.5 What can a variable represent? Page 305	Page 304: 6-106 b & c only, 6-107 to 6-110
Thur	Area and Perimeter Fold Up Book and Worksheet	Page 307: 6-115 a & b only, 6-116, 6-118, 6-119
Fri	Chapter Closure Activities PDF of Algebra Tile Practice--open in Notability	Study for quiz—turn in packet Tuesday

Week of 2/1/16--Packets are blue this week. I am assigning homework over the three day weekend (for students) so we will turn packets in on Monday 2/8.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	6.2.1 How do I calculate it? page 283	Page 275 (section 6.1.3): 6-38 to 6-42
Tues	6.2.1 How do I calculate it? page 283 PDF for trapezoids open in Notability	Page 280 (section 6.1.4): 6-51, 6-52, 6-53, 6-54 a & b, 6-55, 6-57
Wed	6.2.1 How do I calculate it? page 283	Page 282: 6-59, 6-60, Page 288: 6-73, 6-76, 6-77
Thur	6.2.2 What is the area? page 290	Page 288: 6-69, 6-70, 6-71, 6-72, 6-74, 6-76
Fri	No School Progress Reports

Week of 1/25/16--Packets are Pink this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	6.1.1 How can I share it equally?	Page 265: 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9
Tues	6.1.2 What does it mean to divide?	Page 265: 6-10 to 6-14
Wed	6.1.3 How many pieces? What is the whole?	Page 270: 6-21-6-25
Thur	6.1.4 How does it make sense?	Page 274: 6-33 to 6-37
Fri	Finish 6.1.4 and division practice	None

Week of 1/18/16--Packets are Green this week

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	No School MLK holiday
Tues	Area Problem Park	Page 252: 5-101 to 5-105
Wed	Practice Area of Rectangles, Parallelograms, Triangles, and Trapezoids	Start Chapter Closure 253-254—suggest 5-106 to 5-109
Thur	Review Chapter 5	Finish Closure: 5-106 to 5-113 all done—Check your answersJ
Fri	Quiz: Checkpoint #3 and #4, adding and subtracting fractions and Chapter 5	None

Week of 1/11/16--Packets are tan this week

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	5.2.2 page 230 How will multiplying change my number?	Page 234: 5-61 to 5-65
Tues	5.3.1 Rearranging Areas page 235	Page 237: 5-71 to 5-75
Wed	5.3.2 Area of a parallelogram page 239	Page 243: 5-80 to 5-84 (do 5-84a, but can skip 5-84b)
Thur	5.3.3 Area of a triangle page 244	Page 247: 5-91 to 5-95
Fri	5.3.4 Area of a trapezoid page 248	None

Week of 1/4/16--Packets are Blue this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	No School Furlough Day
Tues	No School Professional Development
Wed	5.1.4 What if they are greater than one? Page 221	Page 224: 5-34 to 5-38
Thur	5.2.1 Does the answer make sense? page 225	Page 228: 5-48 to 5-52
Fri	Finish 5.2.1	None!

Week of 12/14/15--Packets are Pink this week.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Short lesson to start 5.1.1 Finish Chapter 4 Quiz	Page 213: 5-5, 5-6, 5-7, 5-8--it is okay to skip 5-8d
Tues	5.1.1 How can I describe it?	Page 213: 5-4 AND Page 216: 5-13, 5-15, 5-16, 5-17
Wed	5.1.2 How big is it?	Page 216: 5-14
Thur	5.1.3 How can I calculate it without drawing?	Page 219 5-24 to 5-28
Fri	5.1.4 What if they are greater than one? Page 221	None—Have a restful winter break!

Week of 12/7/15--Packets are Yellow this week. Homework each night will depend on how much we accomplish as we review each day. Students will write in the problems each day at the end of the period and I will update this page. All problems, other than the chapter closure on Thursday are in the packet. I will be out of the building at a workshop on Thursday.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	No School Staff Development Day
Tues	Review Variable Expressions	Review Problems:
Wed	Review Ratios	Review Problems:
Thur	Chapter 4 Closure in Class--Please do not do early!	Finish Chapter Closure 4-85 to 4-92 and CHECK ANSWERS.
Fri	Chapter 4 Quiz	None

Week of 11/30/15

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	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 the equivalent portions
Tues	4.2.2 Enlarging and Reducing Figures p. 189 Open 4.2.2 in Notability and get ready!	Page 192: 4-58 to 4-62, see page 170 for help with long division--try at least ONE of the long division if long division is new to you
Wed	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 numbers
Thur	4.2.4 Ratios in Other Situations p. 198	None
Fri	No School Grading Day Trimester 1

Week of 11/23/15

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	4.1.2 How many ways can I represent it? page 172	Page 170-171: 4-7 to 4-11
Tues	4.1.3 How can I describe any figure? Page 177	Page 174-176: 4-16 to 4-20
Wed	4.1.3 Continues	None
Thur	Thanksgiving Holiday
Fri	No School--non-contract day

Week of 11/16/15--Packets are tan this week. All work, CW and HW will be done in the packet again this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Coordinate Plane and Integer Scenarios—update Chapter 3 Vocabulary	Chapter Closure: Page 157-158: 3-133, 3-134, 3-135, 3-136, 3-138, 3-139, 3-140—make sure to check your answers! You can do as many problems as you like Monday night and then finish the rest on Tuesday.
Tues	Percent Scenarios-- update Chapter 3 Vocabulary	Finish Chapter Closure Problems started on Monday night
Wed	Numberline practice PDF--open in Notability! Review—Study Guide and Discuss Chapter Closure	Study for Chapter 3 Quiz
Thur	Chapter 3 Quiz	None
Fri	4.1.1 Introduction to Variables	None

Week of 11/9/15--Packets are yellow this week. Students have homework for one of the no school nights, so they should return to school Thursday to school on Thursday with TWO homework assignments done.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	3.2.2 Locating Negative Numbers page 140	Page 143: 3-106 to 3-110
Tues	No School Parent Conferences	Page 150: 3-118 to 3-122 (can do either Tuesday or Wednesy night)
Wed	No School Veteran’s Day Holiday
Thur	3.2.3 Absolute Value page 145	3-128 to 3-132
Fri	3.2.4 Length on a Coordinate Graph page 152

Week of 11/2/15--Packets are Pink this week. Students wanting to make corrections and retake any part of the Chapter 2 test should do it this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	3.1.5 Is there a more efficient way? P. 123	Page 121 (e-book 3.1.4) 3-62, 3-63, 3-64, 3-65, 3-66
Tues	3.1.6 How else can I relate the quantities? P. 129	Page 127 (3.1.5 in e-book) 3-73, 3-74, 3-76, 3-77
Wed	Wrap up Investigation 3.1 Lots of practice with fractions, decimals and percents Link to Ratio Problem--open in Notability	Page 133 (3.1.6 in e-book) 3-84, 3-85, 3-86, 3-87, 3-88
Thur	3.2.1 How does it move?	Page 139 3-94, 3-95, 3-96, 3-97, 3-98
Fri	Checkpoint 1 & 2 Quiz	None

Week of 10/26/15--Packets are Yellow this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	3.1.1 Are they the same? P. 99	Page 103-104: 3-13, 3-14, 3-15, 3-17, 3-18
Tues	3.1.2 How can I describe a portion? P. 106	Page 103, 104, 105: 3-12, 3-16, 3-19, 3-20, 3-21
Wed	3.1.3 How are the representations related? P 111	Page 110: 3-31 to 3-35
Thur	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
Fri	3.1.4 What is the Connection? P. 118	Chapter 2 Test Corrections: Own paper

Week of 10/19/15--Packets are tan this week! We will finish Chapter 2 on Tuesday and complete review activities Wednesday and Thursday. There will be a Chapter 2 test on Friday. Ms. Ruzicka will be out of the building at a science conference Wednesday-Friday, but will be checking e-mail.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Practice "Thinking Backwards" with generic rectangles--open in Notability! 2.3.3 How can I understand products?	Page 82—This is section 2.3.2 in the e-book: 2-65 to 2-69
Tues	Exit Ticket--you may use this as scratch paper, but your complete answer needs to be on your paper copy. 2.3.4 How can I rewrite products? P. 86	Page 84—This is section 2.3.3 in the e-book: 2-75 to 2-79
Wed	Area and Perimeter Posters	Page 88—This is section 2.3.4 in the ebook: 2-86 to 2-90
Thur	Chapter 2 Closure p. 91--Do in HW packet	Complete Chapter 2 Closure and CHECK Answers
Fri	Chapter 2 Test	None

Week of 10/12/15--Packets are blue this week!

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	2.2.2 Square Units and Area of Rectangles	Page 70 (2.2.2) 2-34 to 2-38
Tues	2.2.3 Is There a Relationship	Page 75 (2.2.3) 2-46 to 2-50
Wed	2.3.1 How can I make the largest area? P. 76 File for area and perimeter--open in Notablilty	Page 78 (2.3.1) 2-55 to 2-59
Thur	2.3.2 How can I find products efficiently? P. 79	None
Fri	No School 6 week progress reports

Week of 10/5/15--Packets are Pink this week! I will hand back Chapter 1 tests Tuesday, I still have a few students who need to finish up.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	2.1.1 Dot Plots and Bar Graphs	Page 57 (2.1.1): 2-6 to 2-10 Some students still need to finish Chapter 1 Test from last week!
Tues	2.1.2 Histograms and Stem-and-Leaf Plots	Page 61 (2.1.2): 2-15 to 2-19
Wed	2.2.1 Exploring Area	Page 65 (2.2.1): 2-24 to 2-28
Thur	2.2.2 Square Units and Area of Rectangles	None
Fri	No School State Wide Inservice Day

Week of 9/28/15

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Chapter Closure Activities page 47-49, lots of practice with prime factorization	Page 44 (Section 1.2.4) :1-86, 1-87, 1-89, 1-92 (this problem was also assigned last week, students who did it do not need to redo it)
Tues	Review for quiz PDF of Circles and Pool problems	Study for quiz
Wed	Quiz: Patterns, expressions, arrays, types of numbers, products, factors, multiples, perimeter, area	Read page 478 or Check point 1 if using ebook then DO page 479 problems 1 to 6 and 11 to 16
Thur	From 7th grade book 1.1.2 What is the best strategy? IN PACKET page 5	None
Fri	CY We Walk—no classes	None

Week of 9/21/15--Packets are purple this week. Students received a username and password for our textbook that is available online by clicking the appropriate link above and entering their individual log in information. Some students are planning on using their iPad at school and leaving their textbook at home.

	Classwork	Homework
Mon	Warm up with sharing posters from Friday and 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 What patterns can I find? 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 9/14/15 Students will receive a tan 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 tan packet, the Mathography is a separate assignment. Students will be 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 Parent Letter	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 Tan Packet
Wed	1.1.3 How does it grow? page 12	Page 15 problems 1-19 to 1-23, do in Tan Packet
Thur	1.1.4 How can I organize information? page 17	Page 21 problems 1-28 to 1-32, do in Tan Packet
Fri	Finish 1.1.4	None

Week of 9/7/15

	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.	None
Thur	Pre-test for Math 6A	None
Fri	Complete Pre-test for 6A	None--enjoy your weekend!

	Classwork	Homework
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