How To Lesson Prep for Rational Numbers in 6th Grade : A Guide for New Math Teachers
Teaching rational numbers to 6th graders can be a challenge, especially if you’re new to the classroom. Students enter the
So, Chris Desmond from Nottingham High School in Syracuse, where I did my formative student teaching many, many years ago, has done an analysis with his fellow teachers of all of the questions that have been asked so far on the Common Core Algebra I exam given in New York state.
Their analysis comes in the form of an Excel spreadsheet where they’ve analyzed the percent of questions that are tied to a given CC Standard. What is really, really amazing is that they also include snips of all of the questions themselves. This is really amazing work and would be great for any school to analyze at this point.
The Excel file is large because of all of the graphics that are embedded in it. Here is is:
Teaching rational numbers to 6th graders can be a challenge, especially if you’re new to the classroom. Students enter the
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