Each indicator is followed by activities which illustrate how it can be addressed in the classroom in grades 5 and 6. Represent and describe mathematical relationships with tables, rules, simple equations, and graphs. Students let the length of one side of a square be 1 unit. They then find the perimeter of one square, two squares connected along an edge, three squares connected along their edges, and so forth, as shown below. They make a table of values and use it to determine a function rule which describes the pattern.
Students use multilink cubes or base ten blocks to build rectangular solids.
They use this information to discover a rule or formula for finding the volume of a rectangular solid. Students find the number of primes between 1 and 100 using a hundreds chart and applying the process of the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Students play the secret number calculator game. She then asks her opponent to guess the number. Play continues until 1 is shown on the calculator, so that the opponent has guessed the secret number.