Grade 06 Mathematics - EC: M06.C-G.1.1.2
Grade 06 Mathematics - EC: M06.C-G.1.1.2
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
6th Grade
Course, Subject
Mathematics
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Find the area. Be sure to show all work.
- Find the area. Be sure to show all work.
- You are painting a project in art class and are running low on the color that you like. You have enough paint to cover 50 square inches of paper. Do you have enough to finish the project pictured below? Show your work.
- Party Hall hosts large parties and wants to create a new brochure to mail out. One of the rooms is shown below. Find the square footage of the room for the brochure. Be sure to show your work.
- You are getting a new rug in your bedroom. Your parents said that you have to pay for half of it because you spilled food on the old rug. If it costs $20 per square yard how much will you have to pay based on the following diagram of your room?
- You are helping plant a garden at your house this spring. You need to know how many bags of dirt to buy. Each bag will cover 4 square feet. How many bags of soil would you need to buy to cover the garden below?
Answer Key/Rubric
- 85 cm2
Work may include the following, but is not limited to:
- 49 in2
Work may include the following, but is not limited to:
Missing side of rectangle 1 can be found by subtracting the whole height of 7 minus the height of the bottom rectangle 3.5 (7 – 3.5 = 3.5)
- Yes, you have enough paint to finish the project.
- Work may include the following, but is not limited to:
- Since 36 in2 < 50 in2 you will have enough paint to finish the project.
- 174 ft2
Work may include, but is not limited to:
- Cut up the irregular shape into a rectangle and trapezoid:
- Find bottom of trapezoid by subtracting 18 – 4 to get a base of 14 ft.
- Add 6 + 6 to get 12 ft. the height of the trapezoid.
- $120
Students work might include, but is not limited to:
- Break the shape up into two rectangles
- Total Area = 12 square yards
- Multiply cost by amount needed.
(12)(20) = $240 Total cost- Divided cost in half.
$240 ÷ 2 = $120
- 35 bags of dirt
Students work may include, but is not limited to:
- Break the shape into three rectangles (two are the same)
- Total area = 138 ft2
- Each bag of dirt covers 4 ft2, so you have to divide the total area by the area that each bag covers. 138 ÷ 4 = 34.5.
- You need to purchase 35 bags of dirt to make sure you have enough, you cannot purchase a half a bag of dirt.
