Ingomar Middle School

Welcome to 6th Grade Mathematics - Big Ideas Math

  Course Overview

Students enrolled in this course will follow the 6th-grade curriculum aligned to the PA Core Standards.  Students will utilize the Big Ideas textbook.  The students will receive a solid foundation in multiplying and dividing decimals and fractions, understanding number sense with whole numbers and integers, area of two-dimensional shapes, surface area and volume of prisms, and working with expressions, equations, and inequalities which are the necessary concepts needed to be successful in Pre-Algebra. This course will provide a foundation in calculus which deals with change and how the change in one quantity affects other quantities.  Students will learn to find the mean, median, mode, and range of data, and create and interpret bar, line and circle graphs, and histograms. They will learn to write compare, and solve problems using ratios, rates, and percentages. The program utilizes a research-based, balanced instructional approach that includes both inquiry-based learning and direct instruction lessons.

 
Course Outline 

Unit 1: Numerical Expressions and Factors
*Whole Number Operations
*Powers and Exponents
*Order of Operations
*Prime Factorization
*GCF and LCM

Unit 2: Fractions and Decimals
*Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
*Dividing Mixed Numbers
*Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Decimals

Unit 3: Algebraic Expressions and Properties
*Writing and Identifying Algebraic Expressions
*Properties of Addition and Multiplication
*The Distributive Property 

Unit 4: Areas of Polygons
*Areas of Parallelograms
*Areas of Triangles
*Areas of Trapezoids
*Polygons on the Coordinate Plane

Unit 5: Ratios and Rates
*Ratios
*Ratio Tables
*Rates
*Comparing and Graphing Ratios
*Percents
*Solving Percent Problems

Unit 6: Integers and the Coordinate Plane
*Comparing and Ordering Integers
*Fractions and Decimals on the Number Line
*Absolute Value
*Coordinate Plane

Unit 7: Equations and Inequalities
*Writing Equations with One and Two Variables
*Solving Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division Equations
*Writing and Graphing Inequalities
*Solving Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division Inequalities

Unit 8: Surface Area and Volume
*Three-dimensional Figures
*Surface Areas of Prisms
*Volumes of Rectangular Prisms

Unit 9: Statistical Measures
*Introduction to Statistics
*Mean
*Measures of Center
*Measures of Variation
*Mean Absolute Deviation

Unit 10: Data Displays
*Histograms
*Shapes of Distributions
*Box-and-Whisker Plots

To access the Big Ideas online math book, please continue to this site: http://
ww.bigideasmath.com/