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Welcome to CMS and Sixth Grade!
Please explore the links on the left side of the page to find information that you will find useful throughout the year. There is a schedule of upcoming tests and quizzes under Assessments. Click on the Homework / Grades link to find tonight's homework, along with missing homeworks and assessment
grades. Under Math Help Links you'll find a number of websites you can use for review, locate practice problems for concepts we've done in class, find definitions and examples of math terminology, or discover challenge problems if you'd like. Click on MCAS Links to find the sixth grade math tests from 2004 through 2008. You can find recent and upcoming classroom curriculum units, information about placement,
and other general information in the Math Department link.
Below I've included the sixth grade math course outline to give you a general idea of class routines and expectations.
Homework
Show all your work! You must show your work in order to get full credit. By the time you get to class you may forget how you solved a certain problem and you won’t be able to fully participate. We will be having a lot of class discussions about math and we’ll be interested in different ways to solve problems. If we have to wait for people to remember their methods we will waste a lot of class time. To show your work you may write a number sentence, draw a picture or diagram, write a few sentences, or anything to show how you got your answer. If you get stuck call a friend or ask for help at home. If you’re still stuck, write down your question so that you can ask it the next day in class. Bring to class any work that you attempted. It may help to
figure out where you went wrong. Making an effort on all problems is required and critical to your homework grade. Oftentimes, full credit can be earned for a homework assignment even if the solution is incorrect, if the work is shown. If you are absent it is your responsibility to find out what you missed. You need to copy a friend’s notes and find out what the assignment was.
A homework assignment earns 6 points if it is complete and on time. All problems must be attempted and appropriate work must be shown for each problem to be complete. 5 points will be earned if it's a day late or incomplete. 4 points will be earned if the assignment is two days late or more severely incomplete. All other assignments that are turned in will earn 1 point. Therefore a student may always earn some credit for an assignment, no matter how late, if it is turned in during the term it's assigned.
Grading
In Math you will be graded in three categories:
1). Numerical average of your tests, quizzes and graded assignments. You must show your work on all problems. It is very common to earn partial credit for a problem even if the solution is incorrect.
2). Homework / Classwork - made up of homework average, graded homework, and class participation.
3). Conduct.
Extra Help
Each of us will go through times this year that we will find difficult. If you are having a difficult time, please let me know. I am always willing to spend time with a student that needs extra help. Come and see me and we can figure out a mutually convenient time, either before school, at lunch, or after school.
Class Participation
We will work hard to make the classroom a place that you feel comfortable in expressing your ideas or asking questions about the material. Your ideas and questions may be shared by other students. Appropriate discussion of them as a group often leads to a greater understanding of the concepts. It may be important for a person to restate an idea in their own way so that they are sure that they understand it. I consider this process important and value it highly. Put-downs, negative comments, or other obstacles to this safe sharing of ideas is unacceptable.
Daily Materials and Responsibilities
Every day you should bring to class, 1) your math notebook with extra paper, 2) an assignment book, and 3) two pencils and an eraser.
Math Notebook
All homework, daily notes, and class work should be kept in a three-ring binder, which will serve as your math notebook. The binder will have two sections. In the first section you may use loose-leaf paper or a spiral notebook.
1) The first section is for a) daily notes, b) classwork, and c) homework. Each page should have a heading and date in the upper right hand corner and be arranged in date order. This will help you to quickly locate and identify each page. This will also help to keep your work on similar topics together to make it easier to study for tests and quizzes.
2) The second section is for VIP’s (Very Important Papers).
We will have a file in the classroom in which you will keep a portfolio of your tests and quizzs.
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