Grade Six
Grade Six
11 – 12 years
Sixth grade is a year of education for students ages 11–12. In many nations, it is the first year of middle school or the last year of elementary school.
Skills that Children Will Learn
- Division of whole numbers
- Division of fractions
- Operations with decimals
- Evaluating expressions w/ whole-number exponents
- Interpreting, ordering, and plotting rational numbers on a number line or on a coordinate plane
- Solving one-step algebraic equations
- Understanding & using ratio reasoning to solve problems
- Order of operations with exponents
- Simplifying & evaluating algebraic expressions
- Finding unit rates
- Calculating percent of a quantity
- Solving problems involving area of parallelograms and triangles
- Finding surface area and volume of cubes and rectangular prisms
- Writing and representing inequalities on a number line
- Analyzing the relationship between independent and dependent variables using graphs/tables
- Developing understanding of statistical variability
- Summarizing and describing data distribution
- Number Concepts (6 weeks)
- Rational Numbers on the Number Line (4 weeks)
- Expressions, Exponents & Properties (5 weeks)
- Equations & Inequalities (3 weeks)
- Ratios (8 weeks)
- Data Analysis (5 weeks)
- Geometric Concepts