What have you LOVED about 6th grade math?
What has been your favorite part of 6th grade math? A certain topic, activity, song (“x then y” or “PEMDAS”?), dry erase boards, the SMARTboard, or something else we did in class?
“Close to Zero” Game
Has anyone tried playing this game at home with someone in your family or a friend? How did it go?
Remember, you only need a deck of playing cards to play… and it’s fun! 
Integers: positive and negative numbers
Think of 6 integers. Put them in order from least to greatest. Then write the opposites of those integers and put in order from least to greatest.
Math in your World
Have you seen something we’ve learned about somewhere out in the “real world” (outside of school)? The other day I saw that a Wendy’s bag had how many different combinations of different hamburger toppings you could come up with!
Post a comment if you see math somewhere out there! Maybe it’s fractions in a recipe, they talk about algebra on T.V., exponents are mentioned in a movie…
PI DAY IS COMING! (March 13th = 3.14)
Check out my website for pi day stuff.
http://www.schoolrack.com/cordis/pi/
How many digits have you memorized? I’m up to 37!
Check out this cool website about nets!
What do you think the net of a soccer ball looks like? How do you make a net of a sphere? Check out this website for answers: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/solid/other.htm (one thing you need to know is that this website is from Europe, so they call a soccer ball a football!)
Let me know what you think of the website!
2/14/10: Challenge!
If one angle of a triangle is 40 degrees, what are possible measures of the other two angles if the triangle is acute? What about if it is obtuse?
11/3/09: Challenge!
Write an inequality where x could be equal to 4, 12, 3.1, and 15
example: 2x > 6
10/15/09: Challenge!
Describe a real-world situation that could be represented by the equation:
6 + y = 20
