Sixth Grade Everyday Mathematics

Learning Goals--Units 1-10

Learning Goal By Assessment Rubric Indicators

• Secure
  • Find equivalent names for numbers
  • Identify statistical landmarks of data sets
  • Compute and understand the mean
  • Interpret and construct broken-line graphs
  • Interpret and construct bar graphs
  • Use exponential notation for large numbers
  • Read, write and compare numbers from thousandths to trillions
  • Add and subtract decimals
  • Estimate quotients and divide whole numbers
  • Mentally add 1-digit positive and negative numbers
  • Represent rates with formulas, tables and graphs
  • Convert between fractions and mixed numbers
  • Find the least common multiple of two numbers
  • Find the greatest common factor of two numbers
  • Add mixed numbers having fractions with like denominators
  • Add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators
  • Compare and order fractions
  • Rename numbers expressed by fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents
  • Write fractions and mixed numbers in simplest form
  • Apply properties of sums of angle measures of triangles ands quadrangles
  • Translate figures on a coordinate grid
  • Plot ordered number pairs in four quadrants; use ordered number pairs to name points in four quadrants
  • Draw or form a figure congruent to a given figure
  • Classify angles
  • Measure ands draw angles using a protractor
  • Compare and order positive and negative numbers
  • Understand and apply the identity property for multiplication
  • Understand and apply the commutative property for addition and multiplication
  • Understand and apply the associative property for addition and multiplication
  • Solve "fraction-of-a-fraction" problems
  • Understand how increasing the number of trials affects experimental results
  • Use rate tables to solve problems
  • Evaluate expressions ands formulas
• Developing/Secure
  • Use a Percent Circle to interpret circle graphs
  • Find opposites and reciprocals of numbers
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative numbers
  • Perform operations in the correct order
  • Identify number sentences as true or false
  • Calculate probability in simple situations
  • Understand what constitutes a fair game
  • Understand and apply the concept of random numbers to probability situations
  • Use cross multiplication to solve open proportions
  • Solve rate number stories
  • Solve ratio number stories
  • Estimate equivalent percents for fractions
  • Solve division problems that involve decimals
  • Learning Goal By Assessment Rubric Indicators
  • Combine like terms to simplify expressions and equations
  • Apply the distributive property
  • Solve equations
  • Write and identify equivalent expressions and equivalent equations
  • Write and solve equations that represent problem situations
  • Use formulas to solve problems
• Developing
  • Match mystery line plots with descriptions
  • Estimate products ands multiply decimals
  • Divide two whole numbers; give the answer to a specified number of decimal places
  • Estimate the quotient and divide a decimal by a whole number
  • Multiply by positive and negative powers of 10
  • Interpret number-and-word notation for large numbers
  • Use exponential notation for small numbers
  • Use a spreadsheet
  • Interpret mystery graphs
  • Write algebraic expressions to represent situations
  • Represent data with circle graphs
  • Multiply fractions asnd mixed numbers
  • Add and subtract mixed numbers having fractions with unlike denominators
  • Subtract mixed numbers having fractions with like denominators
  • Find a percent of a number
  • Apply properties of supplementary angles and vertical angles
  • Apply properties of angles formed by two parallel lines and a transversal
  • Apply properties of angles of parallelograms
  • Calculate the degree measure of each sector in a circle graph; use a protractor to construct the graph
  • Use a compass ansd straightedge to construct geometrice figures
  • Solve equations
  • Use an algorithm to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers
  • Find opposties and reciprocals of numbers
  • Construct and interpret Venn diagrams
  • Write open proportions to model problems
  • Solve percent problems
  • Solve problems that involve a size-change factor
  • Simplify expressions and equations with parentheses
• Beginning
  • Interpret and construct step graphs
  • Translate between scientific notation and standard notation with and without a calculator
  • Use variable to describe general patterns
  • Solve and graph solutions for inequalities
  • Understand and use probability tree diagrams to solve problems
  • Identify and use notation for semiregular tessellations
  • Identify figures that can tessellate
  • Create nonpolygonal, translation tessellations
  • Explore rotation and point symmetry
  • Explore cross sections of solides
  • Perform topological transformations