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Dear Families,
To help your child prepare for the seventh grade, I strongly suggest reviewing the math goals we worked on this past year. It is also important for your child to practice arithmetic. Being fluid with math facts makes learning new concepts easier and less stressful for children.
You and your child can decide where s/he needs to focus. If your child needs remediation, it would be best to spend a designated time a few days a week focusing on the skills that need to be mastered. Learning and practicing math concepts math does not have to be painful, it can actually be a lot of fun.
This can be done in numerous ways. There are many free on-line games that are great for practicing math facts and math concepts. These sites include:
Sitting down with your child and playing cribbage, monopoly, scrabble, battleship, etc. is a great way to spend time together and to reinforce math skills.
The Learning Goals we worked on this year include the following:
Understand the concepts of factors and prime numbers.
Find common factors of whole numbers.
Find prime factorizations of whole numbers.
Find the greatest common factors of whole number pairs.
Identify and generate multiples of whole numbers.
Find the least common multiple of two or more numbers.
Identify and generate multiples of whole numbers.
Find the least common multiple of two or more numbers.
Solve word problems using factors, multiples, and order of operations.
Use area models and number lines to find fractional parts of a whole numbers.
Understand what it means to multiply a whole number by a fraction.
Find and apply methods for multiplying whole numbers by fractions.
Use area models to find fractions of fractions.
Find and apply algorithm for multiplying fractions.
Estimate fraction products.
Develop a method for multiplying mixed numbers.
Use an area model of fractions.
Find equivalent fractions with like denominators.
Compare Fractions.
Use a number line model of fractions.
Understand mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Understand that fractions extend the whole number system.
Find common denominators and equivalent fractions.
Use generalized procedures for finding common denominators.
Use an area model to divide a whole number by a fraction.
Divide proper and improper fractions and mixed numbers.
Explore the effects of dividing by numbers between 0 and 1, and by numbers greater than 1.
Develop understanding of fraction division.
Estimate fraction quotients.
Use knowledge of fraction multiplication and division to make strategic decisions in a game.
Understand the relationship between fraction multiplication and fraction division.
Solve application problems involving fraction multiplication and division.
Use area models and number lines to find fractional parts of a whole numbers.
Understand what it means to multiply a whole number by a fraction.
Find and apply methods for multiplying whole numbers by fractions.
Use area models to find fractions of fractions.
Express money in decimal notation.
Compare fraction and decimal notation.
Write a decimal equivalent for a fraction whose denominator is a power of ten.
Use an area model to interpret and represent decimals.
Understand place value to the right of the decimal point.
Convert fractions to decimals using equivalent fractions with a power of ten denominator and using division.
Identify decimal equivalents for fractions on a number line.
Plot decimals on a number line.
Compare and order decimals.
Identify and name a decimal between two given decimals.
Round and estimate decimals.
Compare and order a mixed group of fractions and decimals.
Generate an efficient algorithm for adding decimals without using fractions.
Understand the underlying rationale of place value for lining up decimal points when adding decimals.
Use a calculator to perform decimal multiplication and examine the effects of decimal factors on the product.
Use whole number multiplication and estimation skills to determine decimal products.
Multiply decimals
Use whole number multiplication and estimation to assess answers for accuracy.
Use number sense to develop equivalent quotients.
Develop an algorithm for dividing decimals.
Divide decimals.
Use decimal division to understand and express repeating decimals.
Apply problem solving and computational skills to a real-life problem.
Develop and apply formulas for converting temperatures from Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa.
Calculate an average temperature.
Evaluate two alternative methods for solving a problem for efficiency and accuracy.
Find an equivalent fraction that has a denominator of 100.
Find the decimal equivalent for a given percent.
Use several methods for converting between fractions, decimals, and percents.
Recognize the relationship between fractions and percents.
Use mental math to determine benchmarks such as 50%, 10%, and 1% of any number.
Develop strategies for using the common percents to solve other percent problems.
Use common fractions to estimate percents.
Use common percents to help determine exact percents.
Find a percent of any number.
Understand how two sets can be proportional.
Find percents that are less than 1 and greater than 100.
Convert percents less than 1 to fractions or decimals.
Convert percents greater than 100 to fractions and decimals.
Explore patterns originating with numbers.
Identify, describe, and generalize patterns.
Apply computation skills.
Test whether patterns are true in different situations.
Relate visual and numeric patterns.
Organize data into a table.
Identify, describe, and generalize patterns.
Visualize a three-dimensional pattern.
Find linear number patterns with one quantity that varies.
Identify, describe, and generalize patterns.
Organize data into a table.
Reason about factors, multiples and division.
Reason about inverse operations.
Identify, describe, and generalize patterns.
Use variables and expressions to describe patterns.
Relate visual and numeric patterns.
Explore linear patterns in which one quantity varies.
Invent patterns.
Identify, describe and generalize patterns.
Use variables to describe patterns.
Relate a pattern rule to a visual situation.
Use inverse operations to solve problems.
Determine whether two expressions are equivalent.
Identify, describe, and generalize patterns.
Use variables and expressions to describe patterns.
Explore patterns with two variables.
Relate visual and numeric patterns.
Reason about equivalent expressions.
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