Grade 6 Mathematics Overview
In sixth grade, students focus on
- building problem-solving skills and strategies
- comparing and ordering positive and negative numbers
- practicing operations with positive numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals
- using ratios, rates, and percents
- simplifying algebraic expressions, solving equations and inequalities, using coordinates to create graphs, writing linear equations, and using tables and graphs to represent equations
- finding the areas of polygons and circles, finding perimeter and circumference, and finding the surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes
- applying statistical reasoning to data sets, and finding the mean, the median, and the mode of data sets
Trimester 1
Our focus is on number.
The following chapters will be covered:
Chapter 1: Positive Numbers and the Number Line
Chapter 2: Negative Numbers and the Number Line
Chapter 3: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Decimals
Chapter 4: Ratio
Trimester 2
Our focus is on number and algebra.
The following chapters will be covered:
Chapter 5: Rates
Chapter 6: Percent
Chapter 7: Algebraic Expressions
Chapter 8: Equations & Inequalities
Chapter 9: The Coordinate Plane
Trimester 3
Our focus is on geometry and data.
The following chapters will be covered:
Chapter 10: Area of Polygons
Chapter 11: Circumference and Area of Circles
Chapter 12: Surface Area and Volumes of Solids
Chapter 13: Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 14: Measures of Central Tendency
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