Math Fundamentals  Percentages are everywhere! Sixth grade students are learning how to work with percentages in a variety of contexts, including sales, comparing amounts, and

What’s with all the problems? In Upper School math classes, students are quite often presented with challenging real-world and/or hands-on problems to work out. Typically

Math Fundamentals  Students have been exploring with lots of ratios. They have been (digitally) mixing paint, making multiple batches of recipes, and determining the best

Math Fundamentals  This week students finished up their study of the coordinate plane and adding and subtracting integers. Students had many opportunities to visualize the

As we begin the month of September, mathematics classes are in full swing. Students are approaching or have already completed their first math assessments. The

What’s with all the whiteboards? In The Summit math classes, students are frequently seen clustered around small whiteboards on the walls. This work has been

Math Fundamentals – This week sixth graders took a self-paced approach to learning about mean and mean absolute deviation. We are studying measures of center

Math Fundamentals – Sixth grade students have begun learning more about collecting and analyzing data. Dot plots and histograms are the first displays being studied.

Math Fundamentals – Sixth grade students reviewed one-step equations and completed a knowledge check. Then we revisited operations with integers (positive and negative whole numbers).

Math Fundamentals – This week sixth graders dove into integers. A submarine analogy was used to help understand adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.