6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Symmetry

A pair of golden orioles sings in the green willows,

A line of white egrets flies across the blue sky.

Through my west window, snows of a thousand autumns cap the mountains.

Beyond my east door, boats from ten thousand miles away dot the river.

Du Fu

In this chapter you will:

Learn about expressions, equations,

inequalities, and formulas

Solve addition, subtraction,

multiplication, and division equations

Explore order of operations with a calculator

Solve problems by using more than one step

Critical Thinking/Finding Together

Explain with models how symmetry in

nature is similar to the balance that occurs

in an equation such as n+ 9 = 14.

n+ 9 = 14

3 b = 27

5x–3=22

n+ 9 = 14

3 b = 27

5x–3=22

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