Grade 06 Mathematics - EC: M06.A-N.1.1.1
Grade 06 Mathematics - EC: M06.A-N.1.1.1
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
Activities
- Find the quotient of
- Find the quotient of
- Find the quotient of
- Find the quotient of
- Bill has
pounds of hamburger meat. He wants to split it up into
pound burgers. How many burgers can he make?
- Abby is making a necklace that is
inches long. She is placing a colorful bead every
inch. How many beads will she need to make the necklace?
- A hiking trail needs to have markers placed every
mile. If the trail is 18 miles long, how many markers do you need?
- Donna is baking a cookie recipe that calls for
cups of sugar. However, when she goes to take out her measuring cups she can only find the one-half cup measuring cup. How many one-half cups will she need to fill to get the correct amount of sugar for her cookie recipe?
- Sandy knows the area of her rectangular living room is
ft2. She wants to rearrange her furniture and already measured the length of the room as
feet. She needs to find the width to determine if her two couches that are each 8 feet in length will fit along this wall but can’t find a tape measure in her home. Explain to her a different way to find the width of the room. Then, find it to determine if the couches will fit.
- Write a real-world math problem that requires you to divide the fractions
and
. Then solve your problem.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Divide
by
and you will get
. Students should answer that he can only make 7 full size hamburgers and have some meat left over.
- Divide
by
and you will get 44 beads that will be used on one necklace.
- Divide the distance of the trail 18 miles by
and you will get a total of 45 markers.
- Divide the amount of sugar
cups by the measuring cup size of cup
and you will get
or simplified to
times you will fill the measuring cup
- Acceptable answers may include, but are not limited to:
- Area = length times width
- Use inverse operation of multiplication, which is division, to solve for missing width
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- Width =
feet
- Couches will fit because 8 + 8 = 16 feet which is less than
feet
- Answers will vary.
Acceptable answers must include:
- Appropriate word problem requiring division of
- Answer for division problem given as
- Word problem answer given with appropriate label