Fifteen Skills to help allow for a successful 6th grade year!
To help to fight against the “summer drain,” where students lose everything that they learned from the previous year, St. Benedict Catholic School has decided to create a summer IXL work assignment for 5 – 8 grade. This summer work program is made up of 15 required skills that can be found on IXL and 30 extra credit skills. The 15 required IXL assignments are meant to review material that the students have learned throughout the school year and help to prepare them to jump right into the next year.
Goal: The goal for this assignment is to achieve a score of at least 75 in each of the twenty required skills. This should take no longer than 10 – 20 minutes per skill.
Scoring: The grade for this assignment is worth 20 points. Every required skill that is not to at least a score of 75 will drop your assignment grade by ½ of a point.
Extra Credit: If your childachieves at least a 50 in 10 of the 30extra credit IXL assignments, they will earn 5 bonus points for all three trimesters. There are extra slots open only for skills above the level H if students want to challenge themselves.
General math websites to support summer retention:
(skills organized on the right side of the page)
(watch short videos for any skill)
(math “crossword” puzzles)
(TONS of math games)
(watch short videos and earn points for practicing skills on their website)
(worksheets that practice one skill at a time)
All of the IXL assignments come from level H.
Required Skills (15 Total)
P.4 / Add and subtract rational numbersG.1 / Add and subtract decimal numbers
H.1 / Multiply decimals
H.7 / Division with decimal quotients
W.2 / Graph points on a coordinate plane
DD.1 / Calculate mean, median, mode, and range
I.3 / Simplify fractions
I.9 / Convert between decimals and fractions or mixed numbers
J.6 / Add and subtract mixed numbers
K.11 / Multiply mixed numbers
L.5 / Divide fractions
O.1 / Add, subtract, multiply, and divide two whole numbers Please achieve a 100%
BB.35 / Nets of 3-dimensional figures
BB.36 / Volume of cubes and rectangular prisms
R.7 / Proportions
Extra Credit Skills (Minimum of 10 of the 35 Total)
F.2 / Decimal place valuesM.2 / Absolute value and opposite integers
D.1 / Write multiplication expression using exponents
T.5 / Multiply money word problems
T.7 / Divide money amounts word problems
V.1 / Elapsed time
N.6 / Add and subtract integers – input/output tables
G.4 / Maps with decimal distances
C.1 / Divisibility rules
Q.1 / Estimate to solve word problems
Q.2 / Word problems with multiple steps or extra or missing information
Q.3 / Guess-and-check word problems
Q.4 / Distance/direction to starting point
Q.5 / Use logical reasoning to find the order
E.3 / Prime or composite
E.6 / Prime factorization with exponents
E.9 / GCF and LCM: word problems
X.2 / Write a variable expressions to represent word problems
X.9 / Distributive property
I.10 / Put a mix of decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers in order
J.8 / Estimate sums and differences of mixed numbers
K.13 / Multiply three or more mixed numbers, fractions, and/or whole numbers
BB.2 / Review of 2- and 3-dimensional figures
BB.8 / Triangle review
BB.9 / Classify quadrilaterals
BB.37 / Surface area of cubes and prisms
R.11 / Convert between percents, fractions, and decimals
R.17 / Find what percent one number is of another
R.8 / Unit rates and equivalent rates
X.10 / Solve for a variable using properties of multiplication
Sincerely,
Tim Titzer
Gabby Roffey
Brian Anderson