Mrs.+Dorsett's+Mathematics

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Common Core Curriculum



Nine Week Plans This 9-Weeks, our focus will be on Number Systems, followed by Ratios and Proportions

DAILY PLANS:

__//**August 26**//__: Problem of the Week Multiplication "I Have Who Has..." Multiplication Timed Test

__//**August 27**//__: Division "I Have Who Has..." in 2 teams Division Pre-Test

__//**August 28**//__: Long Division videos "Yo, Joe" activity Long Division notes

__//**August 31**//__: Weekly Performance explanation Multiplication Timed Test Review Division Steps "Make a Date" partner activity Independent practice

__//**September 1**//__: Homework check 2-Digit Divisor video Group Activity - Division with playing cards

__//**September 2**//__: Turn in homework Number Tiles warm-up Math notes: Multi-digit Division foldable Group practice

__//**September 3**//__: All materials on desk Homework check "Make-a-Date" partner activity Independent practice with 2-digit divisors

__//**September 4**//__: Turn in homework with work paper attached. Distribute graded papers. Be sure to bring it home, show parents, and store wherever you are keeping all math work this year. Do not throw graded papers away. They are useful for review throughout the year. Notes: "Division Word Problems" and "Interpret the Remainder". Begin Task Card activity.

__//**September 8**//__: All materials on desks. Return graded papers (bring home, show parents, and store). Finish "Interpret Remainder Task Cards". Write and solve your own word problems. Go over task cards.

__//**September 9**//__: Fill in agendas with IXL information Division Quiz (word problems and standard algorithm) Begin IXL. Skills C-3 and C-5 need to be completed (minimum of 85% mastery) by next Wednesday.

__//**September 10**//__: New seating chart Place Value discussion (whole numbers and decimals) Notes Place Value chart foldable

__//**September 11**//__: Review "Reading and Writing Decimals" notes and practice Independent work

__//**September 14**//__: All materials on desks Lesson and notes: Making Deposits Make 2 deposits in check registers

__//**September 15**//__: Turn in homework "Decimal Models": Decimal Squares Decimal Number Lines Foldables and examples

__//**September 16**//__: All materials on desks IXL and "catch-up" today

__//**September 17**//__: Brainstorm "What I Know About the Metric System" "Whip-Around" class activity Metric notes Foldable Conversions

__//**September 18**//__: Homework check "Reading a Ruler" lesson Conversions review

__//**September 21**//__: Deposits Review Friday's lesson Independent assignment IXL: F-1, 2, 3, 9 (due next Monday)

__//**September 22**//__: Turn in homework Warm-up with decimals Review: Add, subtract, multiply decimals Graphic organizer notes "Group-Around" math

__//**September 23**//__: Return graded papers Go over "Group-Around" cards Word Problem notes Word problem practice

__//**September 24**//__: Turn in homework Warm-up: Decimal computations Graphic Organizer: Decimal Division with Whole Number Divisors IXL: H-4

__//**September 25**//__: Warm-Up IXL: H-4

__//**September 28**//__: Deposits Return and go over word problems Decimal division using models Graphic Organizer: Divide Decimal by Decimal Vocabulary: Terminating Decimal, Repeating Decimal

__//**September 29**//__: Homework check IXL Compare and Order Decimals::Models, Notes, Group Activity with dice and Magnet Slates

__//**September 30**//__: Warm-Up (unit rates) "Unit Rates" notes "Showdown" with Magnet Slates (for extra credit)

__//**October 1**//__: Answer Essential Question in notebook IXL and/ or Extra Credit

__//**October 2**//__: Long Division and Decimals Test

__//**October 6**//__: Deposits Finish test Begin IXL skills E-3, E-4, E-5

__//**October 8**//__: Return and go over test "Factors and Multiples": - Definitions - Graphic Organizers "Prime and Composite Numbers": - Definitions - Question: "Is 0 prime, composite, both, or neither? Explain"

__//**October 12**//__: Deposits 100 Board Activities: Divisibility Rules, Factors, Primes Prime Factorization

__//**October 13**//__: Prime Factorization with Exponents: -Notes -Practice in notebooks -"Rally Coach" with Magnet Slates

__//**October 14**//__: Turn in homework "Greatest Common Factor" -Notes: What it is, How to find -Class practice -Independent practice

__//**October 16**//__: Distributive Property: What it is, 2 ways to demonstrate LCM: What it is, How to find it

__//**October 19**//__: Deposits LCM word problems

__//**October 20**//__: LCM review (share word problems from homework) GCF Word Problems: Venn Diagram Examples Group activity Kahoot (LCM and GCF word problems)

__//**October 26:**//__ LCM and GCF word problem review Kahoot

__//**October 28:**//__ Test

__//**November 2:**//__ Deposits Test return and review Reciprocals IXL L-8

__//**November 3**//__: Benchmark assessment

__//**November 4:**//__ Homework check Fraction Review: Simplify, compare, mixed numbers and improper fractions

__//**November 5**//__: Homework check Graphic Organizer: Add and Subtract Fractions Competitive Edge page 47

__//**November 6**//__: Homework check IXL J-9

//**November 9:**// Deposits Multiplication Graphic Organizer Practice problems

__//**November 10:**//__ Division Graphic Organizer IXL K-9 and K-10

__//**November 11**//__: Fraction packet

__//**November 16:**//__ Homework check Fraction Word Problems Packet

__//**November 17:**//__ Turn in Fractions packet Solve Word Problems

__//**November 23:**//__ Deposits Go over test Integers: Video Slide show Pictures

__//**November 30:**//__ Integers: Review Number Lines Compare and Order Independent Practice

__//**December 1:**//__ Homework check Competitive Edge

__//**December 2:**//__ Opposites, Zero Pairs, Absolute Value Intro to Adding Integers (using color chips) Finish Competitive Edge assignment

__//**December 3:**//__ Integer Word Problems: "Multiple Integers (2 or more) in Real-World Contexts" Class activity: Make up problems given the numbers Solve word problems Solve integer problems using a calculator

__//**December 4:**//__ Homework check Begin Coordinate Planes: Vocabulary Quadrants Ordered Pairs Competitive Edge book page 176

__//**December 7:**//__ Deposits Distance on a Coordinate Plane IXL W-1 through W-5

__//**January 4:**//__ Discuss Integer Activity Review area formulas Independent Practice: Areas of Triangles and Rectangles

__//**January 5:**//__ Turn in Integer Activities Use geoboards to find areas of composite figures Notes Independent practice

__//**January 6:**//__ Homework check Perimeter and area word problems

__//**January 7:**//__ Homework check Origami: Rectangular Prisms Intro to Volume using centimeter cubes Notes Independent practice

__//**January 12:**//__ Pyramids vs Prisms Nets: Triangular/ Rectangular Pyramids and Prisms using polydron pieces

__//**January 13:**//__ Review pyramids and prisms: Count and identify faces of Surface Area: "What it is" and "How to find" notes IXL BB 35, 37

__//**January 14:**//__ Surface Area of Triangular Prisms IXL BB 35, 37

__//**January 25:**//__ Reading Benchmark results in a change of schedule and change of class times. Surface Area homework review Questions and Answers session Volume and Surface Area pop quiz If not finished, quiz is homework

__//**January 26:**//__ Copy Essential Question and answer it in notebook Research "Algebraic Expressions" by going to www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/expressions.html Take notes and copy charts

__//**January 27:**//__ Review and discuss mathgoodies website As a class, answer the 5 questions from the site Write vocabulary and definitions in notes: variable, numerical expression, algebraic expression, coefficient "Writing and Solving Expressions" graphic organizer

__//**January 28:**//__ Check graphic organizers Collaborative Pairs: "Math Libs" IXL X1 and X2

__//**January 29:**//__ "Properties" graphic organizer Lesson: Terms, like terms, combining like terms to simplify expressions

__//**February 1:**//__ Use Properties and proper order to Combine Like Terms Evaluate Expressions IXL X3-X13

__//**February 4:**//__ Introduce Inequalities Research "Inequalities in Real Life Situations" Notes Graph inequalities on number lines IXL Z-2

__//February 8://__ Return and go over "Combining Like Terms" assignment Notes on "Common Mistakes" IXL

__//**February 9:**//__ Cumulative Algebra Quiz

__//**February 10:**//__ Quiz corrections Go over quiz

__//**February 11:**//__ Check Essential Question/ revise if needed Independent Practice

__//**February 16:**//__ Deposits Homework check New Essential Question Notes Graphic Organizer/ examples

__//**February 17:**//__ Check homework on board Independent practice worksheet Begin IXL Y-4 through Y-8

__//**February 18:**//__ Warm-ups Multiplication Equations: 3 Methods

__//**February 19:**//__ Homework check using RallyCoach and Stand-up Hands-Up, Pair-Up Division Equations IXL

__//**February 22:**//__ Warm-ups Review solving algebraic equations with whole numbers Independent practice

__**February 23:**__ Warm-ups Review solving algebraic equations with fractions and decimals Independent practice

__//**February 24:**//__ IXL check "Constructing and Solving Inequalities"

__**February 25:**__ Homework check "Graphing Inequalities"

__//**February 26:**//__ Homework check Review with Kahoot "Identifying Graphs and Inequalities"

__//**jFebruary 29:**//__ Deposits "In/Out" Function Tables (Rules, x/independent variable, y/dependent variable)

__//**March 1:**//__ Homework check Group warm-ups: "Walk Around Math with 6 Function Tables" Foldable

__//**March 2:**//__ Return papers Homework check Word Problems with Function Tables and Graphs Most commonly missed benchmark items review

__//**March 10:**//__ Class Survey Discussion and exploration of Ratios Notes: Ratio Basics Equivalent Ratios Unit Rates Independent practice

__//**March 11:**//__ Proportions: Determine if 2 ratios are a proportion Find missing values 2 ways

__**March 14:**__ Deposits Ratio Tables Ratio Word Problems

__//**March 15:**//__ Ratio Table Warm-Up Double Number Lines Practice Proportions and Word Problems

__//**March 17:**//__ Warm-Up Introduce Singapore Math Tape Diagrams

__//**March 18:**//__ Warm-ups in notebook Tape Diagrams: Homework share 4th type Partner work

__//**March 21:**//__ Deposits Warm-Up Finish partner work Quiz

__//**April 4:**//__ Warm-Up Measurement Conversions Competitive Edge books page 135

__//**April 5:**//__ Check homework Proportions and Customary Measurements Quiz

__//**April 6:**//__ Warm-Up Word Problems, Ratio Tables, and Coordinate Planes

__//**April 7:**//__ Warm-Up Collaborative Pairs: Tutor/Tutee IXL S-6