6.8 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.

• Creating Dot Plots
• Calculating Mean Absolute Deviation
• Interpreting Box Plots

• Prior Skills and Concepts

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

• Ordering and Comparing Positive and Negative Numbers
• Representing Data on a Line Plot and Solving Problems
• Using Line Plots to Solve Problems
• Interpreting and Comparing Written and Numerical Expressions
• Calculating Unknown Percentages
• Distance on the Number Line
• Cost Breakdown

• Extensions

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

• Visualizing Data
• Measuring Data: Mean and MAD
• Measuring Data: Median and IQR

• Personalized Learning

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

• Introduction to Histograms
• Calculating Mean

• 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.