Ratios

View the videos below for further reinforcement of Ratios.

                       

Click on the IXL link below to challenge your understanding of Ratios.
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-6/write-a-ratio-to-describe-objects-in-a-picture 

                                                                           POW # 13

Review the links below for reinforcement on Fractions.

http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-6/fractions-and-mixed-numbers-review

Answer the following 2 questions on fractions.

Due:  Thursday, May 17th

Fractions 

Parts of a Whole

Click the link below to explore fractions of a whole.

Parts of a Set

Click the link below to explore fractions parts of a set.

POW # 12

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Due:  Friday, April 20th

                                                          Stem and Leaf Plots

View the video below for further explanation of the Stem and Leaf Plot.

The data below represents the number of movies the students in Mr. S.'s class seen in 1 year.  Create a Stem and Leaf Plot to represent the data.  What can you conclude from the data?

                                                                  Movies Seen 2017-2018

                                12     15       9     32     21     38     26     11     13

                                18     24     25     22     14       6     24     12     31

Due: Thursday, April 19th

Isometric Drawings

Open the link below and play the game.
http://www.mathplayground.com/cube_perspective.html

Bart's tip for answering EQAO math questions.

POW #11 

Mr. Vigna wants to paint the wall across from the front office.  The wall is 14.5 m long by 3.3 m high.  There are 2 classroom doors 150 cm by 230 cm in the area that he is painting.  What is the total surface area that needs to be painted?  Remember that Mr. Vigna does not want to paint the doors.  

Due:  Friday, April 13th

Preparing for the E.Q.A.O.

POW #10

Grace wanted to build a house for her cat Samantha.  She picked out the bottom of a box at Sobey's 45 cm x 35 cm x 20 cm.  She thought that the outside of the box looked quite boring, so she wanted to paint it the same hot pink colour that she saw in Mr. Vigna's office.  What is the total surface area of the box that Grace has to paint?  Note:    Grace does not want to paint the inside of the box.

Due:  Friday, March 23rd

Exploring Nets

Click on the above website to explore geometric nets and polyhedra.

Cool Mental Math Multiplication Trick

Cool Mental Math Multiplication Trick

                                                                                      POW # 9

Mr. S. has 9 marbles in his pocket; 4 green, 2 red, 2 blue and  1 yellow.  What is the probability of him reaching into his pocket and pulling out a blue marble?  If he puts another blue marble into his pocket.  What is the chance of him now pulling out a blue marble?

Due:  Thursday, February 15th

Volume and Surface Area

Volume and Surface Area of a Triangular Prism

Conversion of Metric Units

Metric Conversions Using the Shortcut Method

Click on the link below for reinforcement in Converting Linear Units.

http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/compare-and-convert-metric-units-of-length

Rotational Symmetry

Check out the link below for a review of Rotational Symmetry.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/symmetry-rotational.html

                                Perimeter and Area of a Triangle

Click on the link below and scroll down to explore the perimeter and area of triangles.

                                    

Prime Factorization
Click on the following video and an interactive game to help you understand              prime factorization. 
http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_primefactorization.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/factortrees.html

POW # 8

Mr. S. got a special slinky that could continuously move for Christmas.  Calculate how many times the slinky would move in 10 seconds.  When he later showed it to his friends, they wondered how many times it would consistently move in 1 year?  He then put the question to his friends, if the slinky moved approximately 20 cm per step, how far would it move in 1 year?

Due: January 19th 

Challenge your knowledge of Ordered Pairs by clicking on the "Using Ordered Pairs" lesson on the      M-G6 hyperlink below.

The Coordinate Game

Click on the link below to challenge yourself identifying coordinates.

http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-6/coordinate-graphs-as-maps