Grade 6 Unit Resources

Preparing to Teach

• Unit Preparation
• Planning an Investigation
• Discourse and Collaboration: Teacher Strategies
• Discourse and Collaboration: Supporting Students
• Student Work and Notebooks
• Using Technology
• CMP Lesson Structure - Launch, Explore, Summary
• Assessments in CMP
• Meeting Students' Needs, General Support

6-1 Prime Time

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Prime Time and the CCSSM Algebra
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - The Factor Game, The Product Game, The Locker Problem
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Prime Time Problem 2.2 Launch - Looking at Cicada Cycles
  • Problem 2.3 Launch - Bagging Snacks: Choosing Common Multiples or Common Factors
  • Problem 2.3 Summary - Bagging Snacks
  • Problem 3.4 Explore - Unraveling the Locker Problem
  • Problem 4.2 Launch - Using the Distribute Property
  • Meeting Students' Needs 

6-2 Comparing Bits and Pieces

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Comparing Bits and Pieces and the CCSSM Algebra
• What's Problem 1.1 All About?
  •   Handout for Case 1
• Planning to Learn (video)
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Target Game
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.2 Explore - Fundraising Thermometers
  • Problem 1.4 Launch - Measuring Progress
  • Problem 1.5 Launch - Comparing Fundraising Goals
  • Problem 2.2 Launch - Unequal Shares
  • Problem 2.2 Explore - Unequal Shares
  • Problem 2.2 Summary - Unequal Shares
  • Problem 4.1 Launch - Who is the Best? Making Sense of Percents
  • Problem 4.2 Launch - Genetic Traits
  • Problem 4.2 Explore - Genetic Traits
  • Problem 4.2 Summary - Genetic Traits
  • Meeting Students' Needs

6-3 Let's Be Rational

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Let's Be Rational and the CCSSM Algebra
• Investigation 2: Building on Multiplication with Fractions (video) 
• Problem 2.2: Modeling More Multiplication Situations (video) 
• Developing Efficient Algorithms: How Do Models Help? (Problem 3.1 and 3.2) 
• Student Work for Problem 3.3
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Fraction Game
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.1 Launch - How Much of the Pan Have We Sold
  • Problem 3.3 Explore - Sharing a Prize: dividing a Fraction by a Whole Number
  • Problem 3.3 Summary - Sharing a Prize: dividing a Fraction by a Whole Number
  • Problem 4.2 Summary - Multiplication and Division Fact Families
  • Meeting Students' Needs

6-4 Covering and Surrounding

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Covering and Surrounding and the CCSSM Algebra
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Areas and Perimeters of Shapes and Images, Virtual Box
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.1 Summary - Designing Bumper-Car Rides: Area and Perimeter
  • Problem 1.3 Summary - Fencing in Spaces
  • Problem 3.1 Launch - Parallelograms and Triangles
  • Problem 4.2 Explore - Filling Boxes: Finding Volume
  • Meeting Students' Needs

6-5 Decimal Ops

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Problem 4.1 Student Work
• Decimal Ops and the CCSSM Algebra
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Target Game
• Investigation 3: Relating Fraction and Decimal Multiplication (video)
• Investigation 3: Missing Factors (video) 
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.3 Explore - Take a Hike
  • Problem 4.1 Explore - What's the Tax on This Item?
  • Meeting Students' and Patterns

6-6 Variables and Patterns

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• What's Problem 1.1 All About?
  •   Handout for Case 2
• Student Work Examples from Problem 1.3: From Lewes to Chincoteague Island: Stories, Tables, Graphs
• Student Work Examples from Problem 2.4: What's the Story?
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Climbing Monkeys
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.3 Explore - From Lewes to Chincoteague Island
  • Problem 1.3 Summary - From Lewes to Chincoteague Island
  • Problem 2.1 Summary - Renting Bicycles: Independent and Dependent Variables
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Group Discounts and a Bonus Card
  • Meeting Students' Needs

6-7 Data About Us

• Focus Questions
• Scope and Sequence
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.4 Summary - Who Else is in Your Household?
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Is It Worth the Wait?
  • Meeting Students' Needs