Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.4C Grade 6 CPI 1

 

Standard: 4.4 - Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics

 

Strand: C - Mathematics--Systematic Listing and Counting

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will solve counting problems and justify that all possibilities have been enumerated without duplication

·        Organized lists, charts, tree diagrams, tables

·        Venn diagrams

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students find the number of different ways to make a row of flowers each of which is red or yellow, if the row has 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 flowers. Modeling this with Unifix cubes, they discover that adding an additional flower to the row doubles the number of possible rows, provide explanations for this, and generalize to longer rows. Similar activities can be found in the Pizza Possibilities and Two-Toned Towers lessons.

 

Vignettes (PDF Format):

 

·        Pizza Possibilities

·        Two-Toned Towers