Mrs. White's 6th Grade Math Blog

Monday, November 11, 2013

Is he right or is he wrong? Use complete sentences to explain your thoughts. Also be sure to show your math power by using math vocabulary words.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Today in class students were introduced to substitution. It seemed like all our hard work practicing combining like terms and understanding what the expressions mean has payed off. We began by practicing with set #1 which were very basic and then moved on to set #2 which got a little more difficult. Set #3 required students to remember the order of operations.

Monday, November 4, 2013

DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY + COMBINING LIKE TERMS

Some groups practiced the distributive property. I created a formula so kids could just plug in numbers and simplify

LIKE TERMS PYRAMID

SORRY MY POSTS ARE OUT OF ORDER. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET BEHIND.

This activity was given to all students to make sure they could correctly identify like terms.

HUMAN ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION - SORTING LIKE TERMS TO SIMPLIFY

In this activity each student was given a note card. Cards were pre-labeled (by me) with different terms, either an x, y, xy, y3, x3, m, or w. Students were instructed to add a Coefficient to their terms if they did not have a constant.

After we recorded their very long expression on the board students began to brainstorm on ways to shorten or simplify the long expression. They determined that the Commutative Property of Addition would allow them to change the order of the terms so they could group the Like Terms together.

Afterwards students wrote the following notes from the board.