Day 79: Study Guide for Area Test

6th Grade Math Standards: Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
MA.1.a.Use the relationships among radius, diameter, and center of a circle to find its circumference and area.
MA.1.b. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the measurements of circles.

The Learning Objective: Find the area of a trapezoid, triangle, rectangle, and parallelogram; find the length given the area of those figures

Quote of the Day: “I know most of you can’t spell your name. You don’t know the alphabet, you don’t know how to read, you don’t know homonyms or how to syllabicate. I promise you that you will. None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Well, goodbye to failure children. Welcome to success. You will read hard books here and understand what you read. You will write every day...But you must help me to help you. If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.” - Marva Collins

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): Why doesn't a rectangle have two bases? Is a rhombus a parallelogram?

Assessment: Homework checked; weekly quiz checked; study guide done in partners with teachers circumventing the room

Agenda:

1. Visual Pattern #18
2. Review the homework
3. QSSQ
4. More trapezoid practice (we actually skipped this because the homework demonstrated a large percentage of mastery)
5. Study Guide 

Glass-Half Full: During my first class, the other math teacher needed to send her class into my room because of a situation. It proved very helfpul that I knew most of their names despite not having them in class. We modified the entire lesson to play a competitive game of pepper. The kids enjoyed it, got educated, and we were able to take care of a situation. It's great to have routines that work in a pinch.

Regrets: I wish that I had given the students a louder promise of push ups for getting the questions in which they have to divide by two correct.