Grade 6 North Carolina Standards

Competency Goal 1: The learner will understand and compute with rational numbers.

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Practicing Arithmetic

Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for negative rational numbers.
a). Connect the model, number word, and number using a variety of representations, including the number line.
b). Compare and order.
c). Make estimates in appropriate situations.

Fraction Facts
Fractals and the Chaos Game
Chaos
Tree Diagrams Probability
Statistics and Shopping
Estimation

Objective 1.02: Develop meaning for percents.
a). Connect the model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
b). Make estimates in appropriate situations.

Fraction Facts

Objective 1.03: Compare and order rational numbers.

Practicing Arithmetic
Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
Fraction Facts

Objective 1.04: Develop fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of non-negative rational numbers.
a). Analyze computational strategies.
b). Describe the effect of operations on size.
c). Estimate the results of computations.
d). Judge the reasonableness of solutions.

Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
Properties of Fractals
Pascal's Triangle
Patterns in Pascal's Triangle

Ojective 1.05: Develop fluency in the use of factors, multiples, exponential notation, and prime factorization.

Properties of Fractals

Ojective 1.06: Use exponential, scientific, and calculator notation to write very large and very small numbers.

ALL LESSONS

Objective 1.07: Develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.



Competency Goal 2: The learner will select and use appropriate tools to measure two- and three-dimensional figures.

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Perimeter
Area
Length, Perimeter and Area
Angles
Surface Area and Volume
Pythagorean Theorem
Fractals and the Chaos Game
Translations, Reflections, and Rotations
Geometry in Tessellations
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
Symmetry in Tessellations
Visual Patterns in Tessellations

Objective 2.01: Estimate and measure length, perimeter, area, angles,, weight, and mass of two- and three-dimensional figures, using appropriate tools.

Perimeter
Pythagorean Theorem
Geometry in Tessellations
Symmetry in Tessellations
Visual Patterns in Tessellations

Objective 2.02: Solve problems involving perimeter/circumference and area of plane figures.



Competency Goal 3: The learner will understand and use properties and relationships of geometric figures in the coordinate plane.

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Geometry in Tessellations
Symmetry in Tessellations
Visual Patterns in Tessellations
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
Cartesian Coordinate System
Geometric Fractals
Fractals and the Chaos Game
Irregular Fractals
Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Cartesian Coordinate System

Objective 3.01: Identify and describe the intersection of figures in a plane.

Objective 3.02: Identify the radius, diameter, chord, center, and circumference of a circle; determine the relationships among them.

Translations, Reflections, and Rotations
Geometry in Tessellations
Symmetry in Tessellations
Visual Patterns in Tessellations
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
Geometric Fractals

Objective 3.03: Transform figures in the coordinate plane and describe the transformation.

The Mandelbrot Set
Length, Perimeter and Area
Lines, Rays, Line Segments, and Planes
Surface Area and Volume
Geometry in Tessellations
Symmetry in Tessellations
Visual Patterns in Tessellations
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
Geometric Fractals

Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving geometric figures in the coordinate plane.



Competency Goal 4: The learner will understand and determine probabilities.

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Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
Sets and Venn Diagrams
Ideas that Lead to Probability
Replacement and Probability
From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Tree Diagrams Probability
Probability and Geometry
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events

Objective 4.01: Develop fluency with counting strategies to determine the sample space for an event. Include lists, tree diagrams, frequency distribution tables, permutations, combinations, and the Fundamental Counting Principle.

Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Probability and Geometry
Replacement and Probability
Tree Diagrams Probability
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Unexpected Answers

Objective 4.02: Use a sample space to determine the probability of an event.

Chaos
Probability and Sports
Ideas that Lead to Probability
Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Tree Diagrams Probability
Probability and Geometry
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
Replacement and Probability
From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory

Objective 4.03:Conduct experiments involving simple and compound events.

Chaos
Probability and Sports
Ideas that Lead to Probability
Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
Tree Diagrams Probability
Replacement and Probability
Probability and Geometry
From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Unexpected Answers
Expected Value

Objective 4.04: Determine and compare experimental and theoretical probabilities for simple and compound events.

Ideas that Lead to Probability
Replacement and Probability
Tree Diagrams Probability
Probability and Geometry
From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
Expected Value

Objective 4.05: Determine and compare experimental and theoretical probabilities for independent and dependent events.

Chaos
Probability and Sports
Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
Replacement and Probability
Expected Value
Unexpected Answers
Statistics and Shopping
Fire!, Probability, and Chaos

Objective 4.06: Design and conduct experiments or surveys to solve problems; report and analyze results.



Competency Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate an understanding of simple algebraic expressions.

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Objective 5.01: Simplify algebraic expressions and verify the results using the basic properties of rational numbers.
a). Identity
b). Commutative
c). Associative
d). Distributive
e). Order of Operations

Introduction to Functions
Introduction to Linear Functions
Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Graphs and Functions
Reading Graphs
Practicing Arithmetic

Objective 5.02: Use and evaluate algebraic expressions.

Introduction to Linear Functions
Reading Graphs
Practicing Arithmetic
Pythagorean Theorem
Graphs and Functions

Objective 5.03: Solve simple (one- and two-step) equations or inequalities.

Introduction to Functions
Introduction to Linear Functions
Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Cartesian Coordinate System
Reading Graphs
Graphs and Functions
Impossible Graphs

Objective 5.04: Use graphs, tables, and symbols to model and solve problems involving rates of change and ratios.