Unit 1
Student Learning Targets
Grade 6
Reasoning to Find Area
Tiling the Plane
- I can explain the meaning of "area."
Finding Area by Decomposing and Rearranging
- I can explain how to find the area of a figure that is composed of other shapes.
- I know how to find the area of a figure by decomposing it and rearranging the parts.
- I know what it means for two figures to have the same area.
Reasoning to Find Area
- I can use different reasoning strategies to find the area of shapes.
Parallelograms
Parallelograms
- I can use reasoning strategies and what I know about the area of a rectangle to find the area of a parallelogram.
- I know how to describe the characteristics of a parallelogram using mathematical vocabulary.
Bases and Heights of Parallelograms
- I can identify pairs of base and height of a parallelogram.
- I can write and explain the formula for the area of a parallelogram.
- I know what the terms "base" and "height" refer to in a parallelogram.
Area of Parallelograms
- I can use the area formula to find the area of any parallelogram.
Triangles and Other Polygons
From Parallelograms to Triangles
- I can explain the special relationship between a pair of identical triangles and a parallelogram.
Area of Triangles
- I can use what I know about parallelograms to reason about the area of triangles.
Formula for the Area of a Triangle
- I can use the area formula to find the area of any triangle.
- I can write and explain the formula for the area of a triangle.
- I know what the terms “base” and “height” refer to in a triangle.
Bases and Heights of Triangles
- I can identify pairs of base and corresponding height of any triangle.
- When given information about a base of a triangle, I can identify and draw a corresponding height.
Surface Area
What Is Surface Area?
- I know what the surface area of a three-dimensional object means.
Polyhedra
- I can describe the features of a polyhedron using mathematical vocabulary.
- I can explain the difference between prisms and pyramids.
- I understand the relationship between a polyhedron and its net.
Nets and Surface Area
- I can match polyhedra to their nets and explain how I know.
- When given a net of a prism or a pyramid, I can calculate its surface area.
More Nets, More Surface Area
- I can calculate the surface area of prisms and pyramids.
- I can draw the nets of prisms and pyramids.