Mathematics - 6th Grade

• Domino Theory
  Students will use dominos to learn about common denominators and fractions.
• Enlightening Explorations, Part II
  This lesson contains three student activities: Light, Angle of Reflection, and Refraction.
• Function-al Machines & Spaghetti Graphs
  Students will learn to identify the relationship between patterns and functions.
• Getting Serious About Cylinders-Surface Area and Volume
  These activities ask students to find the surface area and volume of a cylinder.
• Growing Patterns
  Students will graph growing patterns using ordered pairs on a coordinate grid.
• Math 6 - Act. 08: Patterns
  
• Patterns in Measurement
  This activity uses squares and cubes to find patterns in perimeter, area, and volume.
• Prime Factorization – From Fingerprints to Factorprints
  This activity provides an introduction to composite numbers and prime numbers through factorization.
• What do you see?
  The activity of creating a foam rocket and re-entry shield will give students a hands-on experience in the scientific process and increase their understanding of the solar system.

• Distance, Speed and Time Relationships #2
  Students will examine and compare time versus distance relationships, and represent change over time as seen using TWO runners along lines and results plotted along a graph. This activity helps students identify, describe, and compare situations with constant or varying rates of change.
• Distance, Speed and Time Relationships Simulation
  This applet shows two runners moving along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the race, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship. The computer simulation uses a context familiar to students, and the technology allows them to analyze the relationships more deeply because of the ease of manipulating the environment and observing the changes that occur. Activities like these can help students in the upper elementary grades understand ideas about functions and about representing change over time.