Math Department

Elementary School Resources

Elementary Math Content Standards

Sixth Grade Content Standards

Estimation

• Use appropriate estimation strategies.
• Understand relationship between computation and estimation.
• Apply appropriate estimation strategies when solving problems.

Number Sense

• Extend their understanding of number concepts to include fractions, decimals, integers, i.e., rational numbers.
• Apply decimals and fractions to real world situations.
• Understand ratio and proportion concepts.
• Explore whole number, fraction, decimal, and percent relationships.

Concept of Number Operations

• Use manipulatives to model, invent, interpret and describe problem situations for decimal and fraction operations.
• Identify real world applications for decimal and fraction operations.
• Write, experience, solve, and explain hought processes in problem solving situations involving multiple operations.

Computation

• Demonstrate reasonable proficiency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals and fractions.
• Add and subtract integers with like and unlike signs.
• Find percent of a number, i.e. simple interest.
• Use mental math when appropriate.
• Expand use of error analysis to include fraction and decimal computation.
• Compare various technological tools for computation.

Geometry

• Apply characteristics of 2- and 3-dimensional geometric shapes to everyday life.
• Apply characteristics of congruency to person-made and natural structures.
• Explore the characteristics of trapezoids and circles; find area, perimeter, and circumference.
• Apply geometric concepts to practical situations.

Measurement

• Use a protractor to measure and draw angles.
• Find surface areas of cubes, prisms, and pyramids.
• Find volumes of cubes and rectangular prisms.
• Develop an understanding of the formulas for finding circumferences and areas of circles.
• Solve real life problems involving measurement concepts.
• Apply measurement concepts to real life situations.
• Solve real life problems involving rate.

Statistics

• Find Median, mode, and range
• Solve average problems.
• Collect, organize, and describe data.
• Construct charts, tables, and graphs.
• Interpret, explain, and describe data from charts, tables, and graphs.
• Predict trends using charts, graphs, and tables.
• Evaluate data to determine validity, propaganda, and prejudice.
• Make inferences and convincing arguments based on data.
• Understand the use of statistics in the real world.

Probability

• Analyze and present probability data using percents and ratios.
• Apply probability to real life situations.
• Design and conduct experiments and simulations using probability.
• Continue to use probability as a logical approach to problem solving.
• Create probability story problems.
• Predict probabilities of simple events.
• Compute probabilities of simple events.
• Compare predicted and computed probabilities with experimental probabilities.

Patterns

• Develop an awareness of patterns in relationship to mathematics and the natural world.
• Conduct, and analyze real world experiments that demonstrate how change in one quantity results in change in another.
• Demonstrate how patterns in mathematics result in algorithms and formulas.
• Develop an awareness of how patterns influence decision making in their lives.

Algebra

• Use concrete examples and manipulatives to solve algebraic problems from everyday life experiences that involve identity properties, order of operations, exponents, inverse operations, and inequalities.
• Use a variety of methods to solve one-step equations.
• Informally investigate inequalities and nonlinear equations.
• Write and solve story problems using equations containing a variable for an unknown.
• Graph number sentences.
• Analyze graphs and tables; make predictions from graphs and tables.