The student will complete a task where they are given 50 feet of fencing.  They have to design the largest area of garden using all of the fencing.  Students must explore circles, right triangles, and rectangles.  Students will be using the formulas of area and perimeter and circumference to calculate perimeter and area.     This task was created with Jamboard to allow students to collaborate together in person or remotely, in real time, as well as allowing the teacher to view students' work in progress.   The initial slide presents the task and provides the formulas for each shape’s area and perimeter.  The subsequent slides provide workspace for students’ thinking and collaboration.  The last slide is a conclusion slide.  Here students tell which shape they chose, give the measurements, and justification

Applying formulas to measure attributes of shapes Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

This learning resource provides students insight into combining and subdividing figures as well as utilizing the understanding of quadrilaterals.  Along with the exploration, students will be developing critical thinking through the decisions that are made to create the final mathematical product.  They will also communicate through collaboration to produce a final mathematical product.  They will also develop creative thinking and citizenship by producing a written piece to show their caring and understanding nature.

In Grade 6, students interpreted expressions and equations as they reasoned about one-variable equations. This module consolidates and expands upon student's understanding of equivalent expressions as they apply the properties of operations (associative, commutative, and distributive) to write expressions in both standard form (by expanding products into sums) and in factored form (by expanding sums into products). They use linear equations to solve unknown angle problems and other problems presented within context to understand that solving algebraic equations is all about the numbers. It is assumed that a number already exists to satisfy the equation and context; we just need to discover it. A number sentence is an equation that is said to be true if both numerical expressions evaluate to the same number; it is said to be false otherwise. Students use the number line to understand the properties of inequality and recognize when to preserve the inequality and when to reverse the inequality when solving problems leading to inequalities. They interpret solutions within the context of problems. Students extend their sixth-grade study of geometric figures and the relationships between them as they apply their work with expressions and equations to solve problems involving area of a circle and composite area in the plane, as well as volume and surface area of right prisms.
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Students will find helpful resources for learning and practicing math skills and processes in this eMediaVA collection.

This collection has resources organized by grade level teachers can use to teach math.