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MRS. DAY
Email: jday@monfortonschool.org
I was born and raised in Delaware, as the third of eight children. After high school, an international wrestling career took me across the country and around the world. When injury ended my athletic career, I began my second passion, teaching. I have experience in a K-5 one-room schoolhouse in Colorado, a high school math teacher in Delaware and now a middle school math teacher in Montana. My teaching philosophy is to engage students in hands-on, meaningful activities that connect the topics to their every day lives. I strive to pass on to my students my passion for learning and help them see how topics in math are connected to each other and the world outside the classroom walls.
Topics of Study
The Number System
- Multiplication and Division of Fractions
- Operating with Decimals, Multi-Digit Long Division
- Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple for given sets of numbers
- Introduction to Rational Numbers
- Graphing points in the Coordinate Plane
Ratios & Proportions
- Introduction to ratio language
- Unit Rate and Unit Conversions
- Use of ratios and rates to solve problems
- Solving problems involving percentages
Expressions & Equations
- Writing expressions and equations using variables to represent unknown values
- Evaluating expressions by substituting values and following the order or operations
- Applying the Distributive property and factoring to create equivalent expressions
- Solving one step equations
- Solving and graphing one step inequalities
Geometry
- Finding the area of composite figures and special quadrilaterals
- Calculating Volume of right rectangular prisms
- Creating and using nets to find surface area of 3-Dimensional Shapes
- Using coordinate points to graph, classify and calculate area of figures in the coordinate plane
Statistics & Probability
- Investigate statistical questions and interpret data
- Identify center, spread, and shape for a given data set
- Create dot plots, histograms and box plots to display data
- Summarize numerical data in relation to their context
LESSONS AND NOTES
Occasionally, I will be able to post notes from the lessons and/or helpful links about the lessons.
6th GRADE HOMEROOM
Welcome to the 6th grade homeroom class website!
I will do my best to update this site with upcoming events for our homeroom class such as upcoming field trips and events!