Day 55: Fraction and Decimal Conversion

6th Grade Math Standards: 6.NS.6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.
a. Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., –(–3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite.
b. Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane; recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes.
c. Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram; find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.

The Learning Objective: Convert between fractions and decimals.

Quote of the Day: "Dr. Frankl had been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp with his wife, parents, and brother. His father died of pneumonia in Treblinka, his mother and brother were gassed at Auschwitz, and his wife, Tilly, died of malnutrition at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, two days after it was liberated by British troops. He alone survived. Frankl wrote afterward that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the greatest of all human freedoms, the ability to choose how to respond to any given circumstance. Frankl said that we retain the freedom to choose our attitudes and actions in response to whatever life deals us.” – Joe Ehrmann

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): What was the life expectancy for women at the time of Louisa May Alcott's death? What are factors that can alter life expectancy over time?

Assessment: During the my favorite no, I had 1 out of 27 students successfully convert 5/6 into a decimal. It was a little surprising because it is a skill we have been chipping away at slowly all year by putting their grades in fractions at the top of their pages in math class and social studies class. Most students wrote 1.2 (which is at least thinking about division), 0.56, 0.5, and 5.6.

Agenda:

1. Estimation 180 - Day 63 through 65
2. Pass out the weekly quiz
3. My Favorite No: Conver 5/6 to a decimal
4. Place value review using Turning Point Clickers
5. Fraction & Decimal packet 
6. Start weekly quiz (if time allows)

Glass-Half Full: Just seeing that only one out of twenty-seven in my first class could do the skill that we were working toward was valuable information. Now we can really focus on central issues such as what's too high and low for any proper fraction (it has to be between 0 and 1) and what the fraction bar means (division).

Regrets: More space to do the work on the packet.