6.1 Differentiation and Personalized Learning

Grades: 6th Grade

• Mini-Lessons

  Use these 15-minute, teacher-led small group lessons to support students with a specific concept or skill.

• Calculating Areas of Parallelograms
• Calculating Areas of Triangles
• Determining Surface Areas of Rectangular Prisms

• Prior Skills and Concepts

  Use these resources from prior grades and units to support students with the foundational concepts and skills in this unit.

• Relating Multiplication Expressions to Tiled Rectangles
• Finding the Area of Rectangles Without a Grid
• Finding Area of Rectilinear Figures Without Grids
• Classifying Triangles Based on their Angles
• Using a Hierarchy to Classify Quadrilaterals
• Using the Structure of Rectangular Prisms to Determine Volume

• Extensions

  Assign these problems to students who want to extend their thinking or use them with the whole class.

• Area
• Surface Area

• Personalized Learning

  Use this adaptive digital practice to provide personalized scaffolds to students based on what they already know.

• Fluency Practice

  Use Fluency Practice activities to strengthen vital math skills, enhance continuous learning, and boost students’ confidence.

• Math Adventures

  Use Math Adventures when students can be independent after finishing classwork, an assessment, or group work.

• Twelve A Dozen

• Item Bank and Additional Activities

  Create custom practice sets and assessments tailored to your students' needs using pre-authored standards aligned items. You can find the Item Bank in your Custom Activities or on any blank screen in Activity Builder.