Mathematics

Grade 6 Math: scope and sequence

Where middle school starts: decimals and fraction division, integers and the coordinate plane, ratios, rates and percents, expressions and one-step equations, area, surface area and volume, and a first look at data.

There is no fixed calendar for this course. The units are written to be taken in order, and most families spend one to two weeks on each.

The units, in order

#	Unit and what it covers	Lessons
1	Decimals & Long Division Place value carries on past the point, which is why the old methods still work.	5
2	GCF and LCM Prime factorisation answers both questions at once: shared factors give the GCF, and everything needed gives the LCM.	5
3	Dividing Fractions Dividing asks how many of these fit into that, and the answer can be bigger than you started with.	5
4	Integers & Absolute Value Below zero is a direction, and how far from zero is a separate question.	5
5	The Coordinate Plane Two numbers pin down any point, once you agree which one comes first.	5
6	Ratios & Ratio Tables A ratio compares two amounts, and scaling both by the same factor leaves it unchanged.	5
7	Unit Rates & Better Buys Reduce everything to one of something, and comparisons become obvious.	5
8	Percents Per cent means per hundred, so every percent is a fraction with a hundred underneath.	5
9	Expressions & Order of Operations A letter stands for a number you have not been told yet, and the order of operations settles what a written expression means.	5
10	One-Step Equations An equation is a balanced scale, and whatever you do to one side you must do to the other.	5
11	Inequalities Some questions have a whole range of answers, and a number line is how you show them all.	5
12	Area of Triangles & Quadrilaterals Every area formula in this unit comes from a rectangle that has been cut up or rearranged.	5
13	Surface Area & Nets Unfold a solid and its surface becomes a flat shape whose area you already know how to find.	5
14	Volume with Fractional Edges Volume still counts cubes — but when the cubes are smaller than one unit, counting is not the whole answer.	5
15	Statistical Questions & Distributions A statistical question is one that expects a spread of answers, not a single one.	5
16	Centre & Spread One number for the middle is never enough, because two very different groups can share an average.	5
17	Reading Graphs & Estimation A graph is an argument. Read the scale before the shape, or you will believe whatever it wants you to believe.	5

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