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6th Grade Culminating Unit

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6th Grade Culminating Unit

Unit Driving Question

How can patterns in real-world scenarios be explored using mathematics?

 

Key Resources 

  1. Want Ads (Georgia): In this task, students will investigate the directly proportional relationship of working and earning an hourly wage using want ads.  Through the investigation, students will create expressions, equations, and inequalities to answer questions about their chosen hourly wage.  This task also serves as introduction to the constant of proportionality which is a concept that is taught in the seventh grade. Students are not expected to master this concept as sixth graders.
  2.  The Mathematics of Voting (Open Up):  These three lessons consist of multiple activities that can be completed in order or you may choose the lessons and activities that best fit your classroom.  As an extension to these lessons, you can have your class participate in a class election or vote on their favorite summer activity to allow them to demonstrate what they have learned about the mathematics of voting.
  • How Do We Choose (Open Up): This is the first of three lessons about the mathematics of voting.  In this lesson students will use proportional reasoning to compare voting results in ratio, fraction, and percent form.
  • More than Two Choices (Open Up): This is the second of three lessons about the mathematics of voting.  In this lesson students will continue to use proportional reasoning to compare voting results in ratio, fraction, and percent form.  Students will compare voting results in situations that involve more than one choice and explore different rules for determining the winner of a vote including plurality, runoff, and instant runoff.
  • Picking Representatives (Open Up): This is the third of three lessons about the mathematics of voting.  In this lesson students investigate how representatives are chosen to proportionally represent groups of voters.

     3. Dream House (CPALMS):In this task, students will design a floor plan of their dream house using compositions of basic geometric shapes.  Then, they will calculate the             area of the plan to determine the cost of flooring. Students may also conduct research on alternative energy sources to determine the best fit for their dream house                 location. This project could extend into seventh grade skills, depending upon which geometric shapes students choose to be a part of their home. 

OKMath Framework Introduction

6th Grade Introduction

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