Subject: - Currituck County Schools



Subject: Math

Grade Level: Sixth

Unit Title: Algebra |Timeframe Needed for Completion: 9 Weeks

Grading Period: 2nd Grading Period | |

|Big Idea/Theme: Achieving Balance |

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|Understandings: |

|Negative rational numbers |

|Identity, commutative, distributive, associative properties and order of operations |

|Algebraic expressions |

|Solving one and two step equations |

|Ratios and rates of change |

|Graphing |

|Essential Questions: |Common Core Standards: |

|How does balance relate to equality? |6.NS.5 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having |

|How might we use algebra in everyday life? |opposition directions or values. |

| |6.NS.7.a Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers. |

| |6.NS.7.a Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on a number line. |

| |6.NS.7.d Distinguish comparison of absolute value from statements of order |

| |6.EE.3 Apply properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions. |

| |6.EE.2.a Write expression to record operations with numbers and with letters standing for numbers. |

| |6.EE.2.c Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole number exponents in the |

| |conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order. |

| |6.EE.5 Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process. |

| |6.EE.6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions |

| |6.EE.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations |

| |6.EE.8 Write an inequality to represent constrains or conditions in a real-world or mathematical |

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|Essential Skills/Vocabulary: | |Assessment Tasks: |

| |Equation | |

|Negative |Inequality |Foldables |

|Positive |Solution |Classscape |

|Integers |Variable |DPI Resources |

|Algebra |Equivalent |Computer Programs |

|Identity Property |Equivalent expressions |Card game – War with Reds being positive and blacks being negative |

|Associative Property |Properties |Puzzle Squares |

|Commutative Property |Coefficient |Classroom Response “Clickers” |

|Distributive Property |Constant | |

|Order of Operations | | |

|Expression | | |

|Function | | |

|Materials Suggestions: |

|Jeopardy Games |

|PowerPoints - |

|Integer Balancing Game: |

|Integer Quiz: |

|Balancing Algebraic Equations: |

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| (I know this says grades 8-9 but they are skills we teach.) |

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