Connected Mathematics

Grade Six Contents — Activity Alignment

Each of the links below will take you to an activity to explore to learn about the underlined concept. On each activity you will see:

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Prime Time
- Investigation One: The Factor Game
  - Factors, Prime Numbers, Composite Numbers
- Investigation Two: The Product Game
  - Products, Multiples, Venn Diagrams
- Investigation Three: Factor Pairs
  - Area, Even and Odd Numbers
- Investigation Four: Common Factors and Multiples
  - Common Multiples, Common Factors, Least Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
- Investigation Five: Factorizations
  - Factor Strings, Factorizations, Prime Factorizations, Exponents
- Investigation Six: The Locker Problem
  - Common Multiples
Data About Us
- Investigation One: Looking at Data
  - Bar Graphs, Mode, Range, Median
- Investigation Two: Types of Data
  - Categorical Data, Numerical Data, Frequency Graphs
- Investigation Three: Using Graphs to Group Data
  - Stem and Leaf Plot
- Investigation Four: Coordinate Graphs
  - Coordinate Graphs, Scatter Plots
- Investigation Five: What Do We Mean by Mean?
  - Mean
Shapes and Designs
- Investigation One: Bees and Polygon
  - Regular Polygons, Tiling
- Investigation Two: Building Polygons
  - Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Parallelograms, Lengths of Sides
- Investigation Three: Polygons and Angles
  - Angles, Vertices, Degrees, Right Angles
- Investigation Four: Polygon Properties and Tiling
  - Sums of Angles, Irregular Polygons
- Investigation Five: Side-Angle-Shape Connections
  - Rotations, Flips
- Investigation Six: Turtle Tracks
  - The Logo Computer Program
Bits and Pieces I
- Investigation One: Fund-Raising Fractions
  - Fraction Strips, Numerator, Denominator, Fractions
- Investigation Two: Comparing Fractions
  - Equivalent Fractions, Comparing Fractions, Fractions Greater then One
- Investigation Three: Cooking with Fractions
  - Picturing Fractions, Mixed Numbers, Improper Fractions
- Investigation Four: From Fractions to Decimals
  - Fraction - Decimal equivalence, Comparing Fractions and Decimals
- Investigation Five: Moving Between Fractions and Decimals
  - Fraction - Decimal Equivalence
- Investigation Six: Out of One Hundred
  - Percents, Fraction-Decimal-Percent Equivalence, Discounts
Covering and Surrounding
- Investigation One: Measuring Perimeter and Area
  - Perimeter, Area, Computing Costs for Area
- Investigation Two: Measuring Odd Shapes
  - Area of Irregular Shapes
- Investigation Three: Constant Area, Changing Perimeter
  - Changing Perimeter without Changing Area
- Investigation Four: Constant Perimeter, Changing Area
  - Changing Area without Changing Perimeter
- Investigation Five: Measuring Parallelograms
  - Finding Area using Grids, Base, Height
- Investigation Six: Measuring Triangles
  - Finding Area and Perimeter of Triangles using Grids, Base, Height
- Investigation Seven: Going Around in Circles
  - Radius, Center, Diameter, Circumference, Area
How Likely Is It?
- Investigation One: A First Look at Chance
  - Probability, Equally Likely Events
- Investigation Two: More Experiments with Chance
  - Unequally Likely Events, Possible and Proable Events
- Investigation Three: Using Spinners to Predict Chance
  - Spinners, Angles, Using Statistics
- Investigation Four: Theoretical Probabilities
  - Theoretical Probabilities, Experimental Probabilities, Randomness
- Investigation Five: Analyzing Games of Chance
  - Theoretical Probabilities
- Investigation Six: More About Games of Chance
  - Percents and Probabilities, Designing Games
- Investigation Seven: Probability and Genetics
  - Applications of Theoretical Probabilities
Bits and Pieces II
- Investigation One: Using Percents
  - Percents, Taxes, Tips, Discounts
- Investigation Two: More About Percents
  - Finding Percents, Discounts, Circle Graphs, Comparing Fractions
- Investigation Three: Estimating with Fractions and Decimals
  - Estimating with Fractions, Benchmark Fractions
- Investigation Four: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
  - Graphs, Comparing Fractions and Decimals
- Investigation Five: Finding Areas and Other Products
  - Multiplying Fractions
- Investigation Six: Computing with Decimals
  - Shifting Decimal Points, Multiplying Decimals
- Investigation Seven: Dividing Fractions
  - Dividing Fractions, Applications of Dividing Fractions
Ruins of Montarek
- Investigation One: Building Plans
  - Building Mats, Reflecting Figures, Line of Symmetry, Building Plans
- Investigation Two: Making Buildings
  - Spatial Reasoning
- Investigation Three: Describing Unique Buildings
  - Minimal Building, Maximal Building
- Investigation Four: Isometric Dot Paper Representations
  - Isometric Drawings
- Investigation Five: Ziggurats
  - Isometric Drawings, Ziggurats
- Investigation Six: Seeing the Isometric View
  - Adding Cubes from Isometric Drawings, Removing Cubes from Isometric Drawings,