This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 6th grade Math content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade Math course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
The purpose of this task is to help students interpret signed numbers in a context as a magnitude and a direction and to make sense of the absolute value of a signed number as its magnitude.
Students are familiar with the number line and determining the location of positive fractions, decimals, and whole numbers from previous grades.
This purpose of this task is to help students understand the absolute value of a number as its distance from 0 on the number line. The context is not realistic, nor is meant to be; it is a thought experiment to help students focus on the relative position of numbers on the number line.
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving a wallaby jumping contest. Then, place each contestant’s jump—a fraction, mixed number, or decimal between –5 and +5—at the correct point on the number line. Backward jumps are represented by negative numbers and forward jumps by positive numbers. Numbers are randomized so that riddles can be solved and wallabies placed on the number line multiple times. The accompanying classroom activity includes a fraction/decimal concept review and a response sheet to accompany the online work.
Sample Learning Goals
Use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in multiple contexts.
Explain the meaning of positive values, negative values, and zero, in multiple contexts.
Describe the location of a point on a number line with respect to another number.
Describe the location of a point on a number line with respect to its opposite
Define the absolute value of a number as its distance from zero.
Interpret inequality statements as statements about the relative position of two integers on a number line diagram.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team in partnership with the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.