This week we are wrapping up the number theory lessons and ending the week with a test. Thursday students should be bringing home a test outline and should have notes, handouts and sample problems in their binders for studying.

Have a great week,
Mrs. Copes

Math Students on the Gold Team continue to work on Number Theory skills to get them ready for fractions. This week they have learned to find the greatest common factor of given numbers. Next week we will appy that to reducing fractions.

Mrs. Copes

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and now is starting a great new year! My students are starting their new year in math by learning divisibility rules and prime and composite numbers. Each student has a divisibility rules handout and a prime number chart in their binder along with vocabulary work to help them study. We have practiced and used these rules in class for daily work and homework and will quiz on Wednesday.
I am excited to do Friday’s lesson. Students will get to use ipods from our school ipod cart to play a divisibility game after they take there first bellringer quiz for the new nine weeks.
I hope everyone is off to a super start for the new year! Keep studying!!!

Mrs. Copes

Just a quick reminder of some important things…

Thanks,
Mrs. Copes

We’ve had a busy week in 6th grade math. Students are spending their Friday finishing up an in class activity that we did about Dot Plots. This will be counted as a daily in class assignment grade. Students had to survey their friends and family, then construct and interpret a dot plot with their data.

Have a great weekend!
Until next time,
Mrs. Copes

This week students have been hard at work completing the new MAP test for the first time. It has been very time consuming and my students have worked diligently to get it completed.

We have worked through and completed the 6th grade standard for Expressions and Equations and are now working on Statistics. Students are beginning to work on Problem Solving with range, mean, median, and mode. Some other areas we will explore are dot plots, histograms, and box and whisker plots. Please continue to check your child’s Math Binder often to see graded work, Bellringers done in class notes taken and homework.

It’s time to order your Middle School Yearbook! Students will be bringing home information today about how to order. Don’t miss out on loads of great pictures that make wonderful memories.

Also, it’s unbelievable, but midterms are here again! Students will be bringing home midterms next week for the 2nd nine weeks. Please sign and send back to school. If you would like a conference, please notify Mrs. Koch, our team leader and she will set up a date and time for us to meet.

Until next time…
Mrs. Copes

We’ve had a good 2nd week of school. I’m very impressed by 6th Grade Gold’s behavior this week.

Mrs. Copes

Welcome back to school. I am your child’s 6th grade Math teacher on the Gold team. This week students have gotten their lockers and new combinations and have been practicing opening lockers. They also have been listening to new rules and behaviors expected at the middle school. This morning they had their first bus evacuation drill. On Thursday of this week students will be bringing home a Classroom Behavior page that needs to be read and signed by both student and parent. On Friday I will provide each student with a new Math Binder and we will work on getting those set up for daily work. I hope your child has had a great start to his/her 6th grade year.
Mrs. Copes

The end of the 3rd nine weeks is getting closer and I have had to be the bearer of bad news this week. Some students have received failure notices this week. They have between now and March 9 to get it together and make some better grades! Parents please check blue math folders for graded work, homework, and notes taken in class. Also check in the agenda for the daily learning target. This gives you a little knowledge of what is going on in the classroom.
Today the students have taken a chapter test on ratios, unit rates, percents, fractions and decimals. We will do a couple of quick lesons on converting measurements then start Integers! Integers is a new standard this year for 6th graders.
Until next week…have a great weekend…you may get to build a snowman this weekend!!!

Mrs. Copes

No snow means…work, work, work!! This week students have been converting fractions, decimals and percents. Parents their is a great video on these skills…www.mathplayground.com
Go to videos then click on converting percents/decimals/fractions.

Next week I will be sending home failure notices and attach missing work. Students will have until Friday to turn in all missing work, or the work that is missing will be counted as a 0 for the nine weeks. Please encourage your youngster to get all work turned in on time and to do his/her best at all times.

Until next week…
Have a snowy weekend!

Mrs. Copes