🔢 6th grade Math: how to help at home

What each unit covers

1. ➖Integers & Decimals

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

2. 🧮Decimal × and ÷

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

3. ➗Dividing Fractions

   Dividing a fraction by a fraction by multiplying by the reciprocal, and solving “how many servings” and “how many pieces” problems.

4. 🍕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.

5. 🏷️Unit Rates

   Finding unit rates and unit prices, choosing the better buy, completing rate tables, and converting measurement units with ratios.

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. 📈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.

8. ⚡Powers and Common Factors

   Reading and writing powers such as 3⁴, evaluating them, order of operations with powers, writing prime factorizations with exponents, and finding common factors and the greatest common factor.

9. ✖️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.

10. 🔤Algebra Moves

    Combining like terms such as 3x + 5x, evaluating expressions, and finding values that make an inequality true and showing them on a number line.

11. ⚖️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.

12. 🔺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.

13. 📐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.

14. 🧊Volume & Capacity

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

15. ➕Four Quadrants

    Plotting and naming points in all four quadrants, reflecting points across an axis, and finding distances and areas on the coordinate plane.

16. 📈Data & Graphs

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

17. 📊Center & Spread

    Telling a statistical question from a regular question, and describing data with the mean, median, range and interquartile range.

18. 🌡️Adding & Subtracting Integers

    Your child adds and subtracts positive and negative integers, uses zero pairs and opposites, and compares negative numbers.

19. 💳Banking, Credit & College

    Personal financial literacy: your child compares checking accounts, tells debit from credit cards, balances a check register, learns why credit history and credit reports matter, compares ways to pay for college, and compares salaries for jobs that need different training.