6.4 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.

• Determining How Many in Each Group
• Dividing Fractions Using Common Denominators
• Determining the Volume of Prisms With Fractional Dimensions

• Prior Skills and Concepts

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

• Explaining the Relationship Between Fractions and Division
• Representing Dividing Whole Numbers by Unit Fractions
• Connecting Division Expressions and Story Problems
• Identifying Equivalent Fractions Using Fraction Strips
• Multiplying With Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• Reasoning About Relationships
• Solving Multiplicative Comparison Problems
• Determining the Volume of Solid Rectangular Prisms
• Determining Missing Side Lengths in Area and Volume Problems
• Common Multiples

• Extensions

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

• Introduction to Dividing Fractions
• Dividing Fractions
• Area and Volume With Fractions

• Personalized Learning

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

• Use Diagrams to Represent and Solve Division Problem
• Use Tape Diagrams with Common Denominators to Solve Division Problems

• 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.