1. Your student has their Student Access Account. Have you started your Parent Access Account this year? Go to Conroeisd homepage and get started!

2. Homework/Planner Folder Comes home daily for your review Inappropriate behavior written in planner All papers returned to student must be kept until end of the current 9 week grading period. Students should be checking grades weekly on Student Access. Students have been given codes for access.

3. Scope and Sequence First Nine Weeks –Fluency with Decimals –Multiplying and Dividing Fractions –Integers –all operations Lots of word problem practice !

4. Second Nine Weeks Variables and Equivalent Expressions Equations and Inequalities Two-Variable Relationships Lots of Word Problems !

5. Third Nine Weeks Proportionality Triangles and their Properties Area Volume Measures of Central Tendency and Data Did I mention…Problem Solving!!

6. Fourth Nine Weeks Personal Financial Literacy STAAR Review (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) –test date May 9 th 2016 –Start expecting practice packets in April –higher level of rigor with multiple step word problems testing multiple TEKS in one

7. Student is responsible for turning in ALL WORK to receive credit. All answers are on my website. Student will receive a 100 for homework turned in with ALL problems shown with work. A zero will be given for no work shown or less than complete assignment. Written in student planner and on my website daily Extra practice in Mrs. Reed’s class It is the student’s responsibility to check my website when they are absent and turn in any work that was assignment Counts as 10% of grade. 100 given for completed work, 0 for incomplete work

8. TEST – (3 each grading period) Major Test count 60% of the overall grade Accelerated students Envision Project will count in math QUIZ/ DAILY – (9 each grading period) Quizzes count 30% of overall grade Reviews prior to major test will count as a quiz grade Every Friday students will have a quiz. Alternating Math Review Quiz and Content Quiz.

9. Check out our textbook and resources online at www.mymathuniverse.com/digitstexas User name and password has been assigned to each student. Your students best resource will be their Math ISN. (Interactive Student Notebook)

10. 6 th Grade STAAR 2014 Question 12 (Readiness Standard) A hummingbird weighed w ounces. One day the hummingbird drank 8 times its weight in water and ate half its weight in food. Which equation can be used to find t, the combined weight of the water and the food, in ounces, that the hummingbird had on this day? F. t= w + 8 - ½H. t= 8w + w/2 G. t= w + 8+ ½J. t= 2w + w/8

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12. 6 th Grade STAAR 2014 Question 48 (Supporting Standard) Freddie used 28 nails to make birdhouses. He used the same number of nails for each birdhouse. Which of the following CANNOT be the number of birdhouses Freddie made? F. 4H. 7 G. 6J. 2

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14. My goal MmMy goal How Let your student take responsibility for their education *Website *Tutoring 8:00 am. Schedule *Tutoring 8:00 am. Schedule posted on website and board.

15. Check out my website on the Collins Intermediate homepage: My Website Email: cnpowell@conroeisd.net My Website We take pride in teaching our students to be accountable for their education. Thank you for coming!