Mathematics - Grade 6

September, 2014 - Grade 6 Math

 

Currently, your child has been learning about patterns. The focus of the lessons will be on number patterns, pattern rules, variables, and equations. Your child will use data tables and graphs in order to find relationships. Throughout the chapter, your child will be asked to use their understanding of the relationship between numbers to solve problems. These activities are your child’s introduction to algebra, including thinking about the meaning of equations and using letters to represent unknown values.

 

Throughout this time, you and your child may engage in these activities:

• Find examples of patterns at home that can be written using terms and term numbers, including the cost, mass, or volume of different numbers of grocery items.
• Find products at home that have a fixed price, such as cereal. Then write an explicit pattern rule with a variable for the total cost of any number of these items.
• Represent information, such as a weekly allowance or the cost of a cell phone subscription, on a graph. Talk to your child about an expense that your household might have that is a fixed amount each week or each month.

• Find tile patterns outside the classroom. Then write a problem about the designs and a pattern rule to solve the problem.

• Find the cost of an item your child would like to purchase, and then write at least 5 number expressions to show different money amounts that could be used to pay for it.

 

You may want to visit www.mathK8.nelson.com and follow the links to Nelson Mathematics 6, Chapter 1, for more suggestions to help your child learn mathematics

and for books that relate children’s literature to patterns. Also check the Web site for links to other Web sites that provide online tutorials, math problems, and brainteasers.