Where's Mr. Flaten?

Well, my wife and I were expecting a baby about a month from now, but he came last night.  So, I'll be gone for a few days.  Mrs. Oest will be teaching in the classroom for a week or two, until I return. In the meantime, I probably won't be updating the blog as frequently, so you can check out Mr. Nelson's blog for a version of what was probably done in class.

Here's the link:  http://mrnelsonsmathblog.blogspot.com/

See you later, See you soon!

GCF - Greatest Common Factor

Here's a method that we are going to look at to find the GCF easily for any numbers:

Upside down birthday cake

You can also use factor lists, or factor trees, but this way seems to be the preferred method for speed and accuracy.

This week we cover: GCF, LCM, and a review of adding and subtracting fractions.

STAR assessment

Click here: STAR ASSESSMENT LINK
user names and passwords will be on the board.

Today we are completing the STAR assessment.  We do this a few times a year and all sixth graders in class will be doing their best on this and results will be available at parent/teacher conferences.  This shows if we are placed correctly, if more intervention is needed, or if there are opportunities for enrichment.  It is not pass/fail, so it will not be recorded in the gradebook.

We just completed prime factorization, or what we call factor trees.  Some key vocabulary words are prime numbers, composite numbers, and also the factorization.

That's all for now.

More Practice Today, Quiz Tomorrow!

After you complete the practice sheet try these links:

Khan Academy Review Links
Follow these links:

• Exponents
• Order of Operations
• Order of Operations 2
• Multi-Digit Multiplication
• Long Division with Remainders

The quiz is on these things listed above.  :)  

Order of Operations

Today we're starting Order of Operations, also we were assigned our first homework assignment today.  It's practice 1.1 and 1.2 which focuses on long division and exponents.  Expect one take home assignment a week with any and all topics we've already covered.


Make 24 Game

Powers and Exponents

Our homework had more Long Division, I was excited to see so many students know how to do this already.  The biggest struggles I saw were putting the wrong numbers up and having to redo the calculations and knowledge of basic math facts.  We'll get there.  I was also pleased to hear that some students told me, "This doesn't seem as hard as I thought it would be!"  Good stuff!

Couple of Days, no post

Wow!  The days are flying by!  We started off with whole number operations of all four varieties: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Our first homework assignment was due on those skills.

Also, we learned how to log into and use Khanacademy today, so that can always be used as an enrichment, review of prior skills, and just homework time if you want something to work on for a few minutes each evening.

Sign up for lots of stuff day!

Welcome to the blog, this a place where you'll be able to find out what we did or are going to do in class.  On the sides are links to different places that might help you learn.  Today we have three goals and we'll get as far as we can on them.

1. Congrats, you already made it to this site, that was first.

2. Go to https://bigideasmath.com/BIM/register and wait for the class code from Mr. Flaten.

3. If there is time we are going to try to log in to your www.khanacademy.org account and add Mr. Flaten as a teacher.

Tomorrow we'll go over rules and get started with our learning targets and standards.