Mathematics SyllabusDowntown Doral Charter Upper School 2019-2020

Expectations, Rules, and Procedures 6th Grade IntensiveTeacher: Mr. Fernandez E-mail: fernandezed@dadeschools.net Room: 322

Welcome Dolphin student and Families to 6th grade. My name is Mr.Fernandez, and I will be your Math teacher this school year. I am so excited to share my knowledge with you on our first year at our amazing Downtown Doral Charter Upper School (DDCUS). I have planned diverse strategies in order to help you reach your goals in math this school year. We will cover a broad range of topics in our Math curriculum that will encourage you to think critically, and to be actively engaged in order to be motivated and make a positive learning environment. Student’s participation is essential during our class activities, also the completion of tasks and projects is very important, as well as a positive parent- teacher- student relationship in the interest of better preparing our children for life. The purpose of this syllabus is to help you be better preparing you to win. If you know the rules of the game, then you know what will get you to the finish line successfully. The expectation and guidelines for this class are listed below.Course Description: In Grade 6, instructional time focuses on four critical areas: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; (3) writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and (4) developing understanding of statistical thinking.

1. Students use reasoning about multiplication and division to solve ratio and rate problems about quantities. By viewing equivalent ratios and rates as deriving from, and extending, pairs of rows (or columns) in the multiplication table, and by analyzing simple drawings that indicate the relative size of quantities, students connect their understanding of multiplication and division with ratios and rates. Thus students expand the scope of problems for which they can use multiplication and division to solve problems, and they connect ratios and fractions. Students will be grouped in cooperative teams.

2. Students use the meaning of fractions, the meanings of multiplication and division, and the relationship between multiplication and division to understand and explain why the procedures for dividing fractions make sense. We use integers in particular negative integers. Reasoning of absolute value of rational numbers and about the location of points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

3. Understand the use of variables in mathematical expressions. Include write expressions and equations that correspond to given situations, evaluate expressions, and use expressions and formulas to solve problems. Students use properties of operations and the idea of maintaining the equality of both sides of an equation to solve simple one-step equations. Students construct and analyze tables, such as tables of quantities that are equivalent ratios, and they use equations (such as 3x = y) to describe relationships between quantities.

4. Building on and reinforcing their understanding of number, students begin to develop their ability to think statistically. Students recognize that a data distribution may not have a definite center and that different ways to measure center yield different values. The median, the mode and the mean. Students recognize that a measure of variability (interquartile range or mean absolute deviation) can also be useful for summarizing data because two very different set of data can have the same mean and median yet be distinguished by their variability. Students learn to describe and summarize numerical data sets, identifying clusters, peaks, gaps, and symmetry, considering the context in which the data were collected.

5. Apply background knowledge about relationships among shapes to determine area, surface area, and volume. They find areas of right triangles, other triangles, and special quadrilaterals by decomposing these shapes, rearranging or removing pieces, and relating the shapes to rectangles. Students find areas of polygons and surface areas of prisms and pyramids by decomposing them into pieces whose area they can determine. They reason about right rectangular prisms with fractional side lengths to extend formulas for the volume of a right rectangular prism to fractional side lengths. They prepare for work on scale drawings and constructions in Grade 7 by drawing polygons in the coordinate plane.

Course Goal: Student will attain their measurement learning goals throughout the year using different activities to inquiry and optimize student learning and understanding of context. Based on our course description, student will be able to demonstrate, interpret, and analyze the four critical areas in fractions and diverse uses, apply critical thinking to solve real world problems, incorporating formulas to solve areas and surface area of geometrical figures, and statistical understanding of data and the different purposes and applications.

Materials:

1-Composition notebook (graph) 1-Composition notebook (line) #2 pencils (packet) 1-Dual Pocket Folder Lined paper pack 1-Rim of white or light color copy paper IPad (school property)

Classroom Expectations

You need to be prepared for class and have your materials EVERY day. You are always expected to have your materials and be ready to work.

Raise your hand to ask or answer a question in class. Wait quietly until you are given permission to stand Be here every day! The most important rule in the classroom is RESPECT your classmates, teacher, staff and school property.

Everyone should be treated with respect! Be mindful of your actions and words, zero tolerance for foul language! No food or drinks in class Any internet usage is strictly for class activities

Assignments:

All assignments need to be turned in on time! No late work will be accepted Long term assignments are due before and/or on the due date, make arrangements. Work should be neat and legible With a login provided by your child’s teacher, access resources to help your child with homework or brush

up on your math skills. Homework:

YES! You have homework every day. It will be a variety of sources (online as well as paper) Teacher will provide necessary links.

Cheating:

Any form of cheating will result in a zero grade for all parties involved. Plagiarism such as copying information from the internet site, is a form a cheating and will be handled as

so.

Electronics: Cell phones will be off and inside backpacks during class time.

IPad will be charged at home

Grades: Grades will be earned in formative and summative scores based on test, quizzes and projects totalling 70% quarterly grade and homework, classwork and participation for 30% for the final quarterly grade.A= 90- 100% OutstandingB= 80- 89% GoodC= 70-79% Minimal: Improvement neededF= 0-59% Undatisfactory

Bathroom Passes: Hall passes will be provided expect 10 minutes after class starts or 10 before it ends

Movement in Class and Dismissal: Come into the classroom put your backpack in the backpack area, take iPad to your assigned desk and

start to work on your bellringer problem. You only have 10 minutes to complete. The class will be dismissed by the teacher

Tardies: If you are tardy, enter the room quietly, no yellow passes are accepted without previous communication

from the person holding you late to my class. In a nine weeks: 1st tardy written warning to student. 2nd tardy : Note to parents via email/telephone call. 3rd tardy: Teacher parent conference. 4 or more referral to administration.

Absences: If you know in advance that you will be absent (field trip, sporting event, school activity), talk to me ahead

of time to get your assignments. You can make up your work for full credit if you have an EXCUSED absence. All make-up work needs to be completed within a period of time equal to the number of days absent,

after that the assignment will be a zero.

Textbooks and IPad: You have an electronic textbook available in the student iPad. If you need a hard copy of the textbook,

please request one from your teacher Any damage to your iPad there will be a fee for repair /or replacement fee accordingly

Dress Code:

You are expected to be in uniform every day. On Friday you may wear your school polo shirt with uniform bottoms.

Administrative detentions will be issued.

Math is Global!

Expectations, Rules, and Procedures

Grade 6 intensive Math Mr. Fernandez Room 322

Please read and initial each line below, thus acknowledging you have received, read andagree to the statement a copy should be returned to Mr. Fernandez

1. I have printed, read & placed this syllabus in my class binder and agree to abide by it. ________ 2. I know how to access my student portal in gradebook to be able to check my grades regularly and any

documents that my teacher may post. _________3. I know my classroom is #322 and I can reach Mr.Fernandez at fernandezed@dadeschools.net______4. I know that I will need to create an account on the assigned website using my class code.__________

5. I know that if I miss a pop quiz I can NOT make it up unless I have an excused pass. ________6. Excused make-up of homework, tests and/or quizzes will be provided upon your return to class. _______7. I know if I’m absent from class I’m responsible to get my class make-up work before or after class.

_______8. I know that if I am participating in an in-house field trip, I am responsible to bring any assignment due that

day. ________9. I know that I follow the code conduct by DDCUS need to READ & review my notes nightly to be successful

in preparing for quizzes, quests and tests. __________10. I know that cheating or plagiarism will result in a zero and a possible referral. ________11. I know that I have to follow Lab Safety Rules and Procedures or be asked to sit down and forfeit the lab.

______12. I know that I cannot use my cell phone while I am in the classroom. _______13. I know that my Ipas is for school purposes and I will use it accordingly. _______14. I Know I have to have a bathroom pass while outside my classroom______15. I understand that bullying, name calling or mocking, and foul languages have ZERO TOLERANCE

in this classroom and are grounds for demerits and administrative referrals. _____16. I know that if I leave early from school 3 times or more, I may not be eligible for make-up work

unless a medical excuse is provided. ______17. If I am at school, I am responsible to turn in any due assignment before I go home early. _____18. I know that book bags will remain in the backpack area until my teacher gives permission to

access it. _____19. I understand that if there is a long term assignment, I am responsible to turn it in before or on the due

date, not after even if I have an admit. I can do so by sending it via e-mail or with a fellow student. ______

Class Period: _____

____________________________________ _________________________________Student Signature Parent Signature

To be returned to Mr. Fernandez, Room 322