6th Grade Math Guide

Unit 1: Area and Surface Area For each lesson indicated, initial the box for each “Are You Ready For More?” you have completed. Lesson I can statement and corresponding standard Date Completed Initials 1.1: Tiling the Plane I can explain the meaning of area (Standard 6.G.1) 6th grade Honor’s Objective Tracker

1.2: Finding Area by Decomposing and Rearranging 1.3: Reasoning to Find Area 1.5: Base and Heights of Parallelograms 1.6: Area of Parallelograms 1.7: From Parallelograms to Triangles

I can explain how to find the area of a figure that is composed of other shapes. (Standard 6.G.1)

I can use different reasoning strategies to find the area of shapes (Standard 6.G.1) I can identify pairs of base and height of a parallelogram. (Standard 6.G.1) I can use the area formula to find the area of any parallelogram. (Standard 6.G.1) I can explain the special relationship between a pair of identical triangles and a parallelogram. (Standard 6.G.1) I can use what I know about parallelograms to reason about the area of triangles. (Standard 6.G.1) I can use different base-height pairs to find the area of a triangle. (Standard 6.G.1) I can reason about the area of any polygon by decomposing and rearranging it, and by using what I know about rectangles and triangles. (Standard 6.G.1) I Know what the surface area of a three-dimensional object means. (Standard 6.G.4)

1.8: Area of Triangles

1.10: Bases and Heights of Triangles 1.11: Polygons

1.12: What is Surface Area? 1.13: Polyhedra

I can describe the features of a polyhedron using mathematical vocabulary. (Standard 6.G.4)

1.14: Nets and Surface Area

I can match polyhedra to their nets and explain how I know. (Standard 6.G.4)