Today begins the 3rd nine weeks! This is a great opportunity for students to "buckle down" (as Dr. Pinto likes to put it) and finish strong for the year. Overall, scores in my class were UP since first quarter. This means that many students are learning from their mistakes and getting a feel for what it takes to be successful in 6th grade math.
Today, students will receive their graded Unit 5 tests. Overall scores were lower than I expected, especially since 1/4th of the points were review questions. We will be going over the test today in class and hopefully students realize where they made their mistakes. I am going to refresh them on test taking skills as well, as some students did not manage their time very efficiently. Also, being a multiple choice test, it was possible to eliminate 2 or even 3 answers without even doing any calculations. I think there was a lot of guessing and not much checking to see that their answer makes sense.
Also today, I will again remind students that if they are not getting homework turned in, they will be staying inside during recess to finish their incompleted work. Hopefully this motivates them to get it turned in on time and their grades will continue to improve.
Tomorrow, students will take the pre test for unit 6 - Fractions
We will being our Fractions unit on Thursday. There will be a short homework assignment for tonight as a review before we get started with fractions. They may have some time in class to begin.
Homework - Workbook Page 26, even numbered problems 2-20
