🔢 Grade 6 Math: how to help at home

What each unit covers

1. 🔭Thousandths to Billions

   Reading, writing, comparing and rounding numbers from thousandths (0.001) up to billions, including multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.

2. ➖Integers & Decimals

   Meeting negative numbers on a number line, comparing and ordering integers, decimals and fractions, working with thousandths, and rounding decimals.

3. ✖️Facts & Factors

   Quick recall of multiplication and division facts, plus factors, multiples and prime numbers, the greatest common factor (GCF) and least common multiple (LCM), and word problems that use them.

4. 🌳Factors & Primes

   Using divisibility rules for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10, telling prime from composite, and writing a number as a product of prime factors.

5. 🍕Mixed Numbers & Ratios

   Switching between improper fractions (like 13/5) and mixed numbers (2 3/5), placing them on a number line, and writing and using ratios such as 3:4 in tables and word problems.

6. 🏷️Percents & Budgets

   Finding percents of amounts, working out sale prices and savings, comparing unit prices to find the better buy, and planning a simple budget and savings goal.

7. 💯Percents & Ratios

   Finding 1%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 25% and 50% of a number in your head, and solving ratio, rate and percent problems.

8. 🧮Decimal × and ÷

   Multiplying and dividing decimals, estimating to check where the decimal point goes, and solving shopping and measurement problems.

9. ⚖️Equations

   Using the order of operations (brackets, then × and ÷, then + and −) and solving one-step equations like 6n = 42 with inverse operations, including writing equations for word problems.

10. 📈Patterns & Graphs

    Describing growing and shrinking patterns with rules like 3n + 2, using tables and graphs to predict values, and reading change over time from line graphs.

11. 🔺Angles & Triangles

    Estimating and classifying angles (acute, right, obtuse, straight, reflex), finding missing angles on a line and in triangles, and classifying triangles by their sides and angles.

12. 📐Perimeter & Area

    Finding the perimeter of L-shapes and other polygons, and the area of triangles (b × h ÷ 2), parallelograms (b × h) and trapezoids ((a + b) × h ÷ 2), including working backwards to a missing measurement.

13. 🧊Volume & Capacity

    Finding the volume of rectangular prisms, converting between litres and millilitres, and connecting volume to capacity (1 cm³ holds 1 mL).

14. 🔷Quadrilaterals & Grids

    Properties of quadrilaterals (symmetry and diagonals), top and front views, coordinates in all four quadrants, and combining slides and flips.

15. 🔄Transformations

    Translating, reflecting and rotating points and shapes on a coordinate grid, and combining two transformations in a row.

16. 📈Line Graphs & Data

    Practises choosing ways to collect data (questionnaires, experiments, observations), reading and labelling line graphs, finding the range, and drawing conclusions from a graph.

17. 📈Data & Graphs

    Telling discrete data (counted) from continuous data (measured), reading histograms and line graphs, finding the range, and spotting misleading graphs.

18. 🎲Probability

    Writing probabilities as fractions for spinners, dice and marbles, comparing theoretical probability with experimental results, and making predictions from data.