Day 59: Ordering Percents, Fractions, Decimals

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.

The Learning Objective: Order fractions, decimals, and percentages

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): What is 3/8 as a percent?

Assessment: Students did their choice of problem on the back of the notes and showed one of the teachers before getting a book and starting the homework.

Agenda:

1. Self Assessment of quiz
2. Review the quiz 
3. Pepper
4. Notes on ordering
5. Practice of ordering

Glass-Half Full: What went well today was the amount of time we had for pepper. It's amazing how these students vocabulary is relative to groups I have had in the past. The integration of pepper and spiraling back between different terms has been helpful in mastering these concepts and not storing them in the gutters of the brain.

Regrets: As one of the co-teachers told me, it's difficult to get a sense of the real-world connection for how this is all relevant. Not sure where to go with this as I believe it is just simply a skill that students need to have in their toolbox. Perhaps I can use the analogy of being able to speak different languages because these three math languages have very strict translations.