6th Grade Mathematics

What your student will be able to do after a successful year

Ratio and Proportional Relationships

• Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
• Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems
• Solve unit rate problems
• Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100
• Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.

The Number System

• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
• Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
• Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers

Expressions and Equations

• Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
• Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
• Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.

Geometry

• Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Statistics and Probability

• Develop understanding of statistical variability.
• Summarize and describe distributions.