Math

                   Sixth Grade Math Program

                                                    
Presently, Saint Mary School is in the early stages of a curriculum review cycle. Saint Mary School has adopted the rigorous academic curriculum set forth by the Archdiocese of Hartford. In accordance with our mission, the Archdiocese of Hartford Curriculum reflects a continuum of learning from prekindergarten through high school graduation, and the standards are based on the teachings of the Catholic Church, infused with Catholic social teaching, rooted in basic skills, and immersed in technology and 21st century literacies. Furthermore, all curriculum documents are in alignment with national and state standards and exceed the Common Core State Standards.
Methods and Materials:
                Text: Houghton Mifflin Math
                Workbooks
                Supplemental worksheets
                Hands on approach using manipulatives
                Calculators
                Various web sites that support the curriculum
 
               
. Grades are based on: Tests and Projects--40%, Quiz--30%, Homework--20%, Effort and Participation--10%
 
 
Focus:

• Number Theory, Operations, Algebraic Thinking
  • Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another to solve problems
  • Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples
  • Represent and analyze quantitative relationships in a variety of ways to solve problems
  • Use numbers and their properties to compute flexibly, fluently, and make reasonable estimates
  • Analyze patterns, relations, functions, and changes in various contexts
  • Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
  • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions
  • Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
  • Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
• Geometry
  • Solve-real world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume
  • Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems
  • Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems
• Measurement
  • Apply appropriate techniques, tools and formulas to determine measurements to solve real world problems
• Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
  • Formulate questions that can be addressed with data; collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them using appropriate statistical and graphical methods
  • Analyze data sets to form hypotheses and make predictions
  • Develop understanding of statistical variability
  • Summarize and describe distributions