6th Grade Scope & Sequence

Units and Student Material

· Bellingham School District uses the online program Desmos.  This is the primary resources used for the 6th grade course at FMS.

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·Units covered during the 6th grade year are listed below in order.

Unit 1: Area and Surface Area

• Students extend their knowledge of areas of rectangles to reason about areas of parallelograms and triangles, and to calculate surface areas.

Unit 2: Introducing Ratios

• Students’ first formal introduction to ratios, a concept that they will revisit several times throughout the year and in later grades. Students learn several ways to represent ratios—with double number lines, tables, and tape diagrams.

Unit 3: Unit Rates and Percentages

• • Students' convert units, calculate unit rates, and solve problems with percentages.

Unit 4: Dividing Fractions

• Students' reason about two different strategies for dividing fractions and apply their strategies to calculate lengths, areas, and volumes.

Unit 5: Decimal Arithmetic

• • • • Students continues the theme of building on prior knowledge as students formalize strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals

Unit 6: Expressions and Equations

• • • • Students' return to tape diagrams and introduces hanger diagrams as strategies for solving equations.  Unit 6 also includes an introduction to exponents and reasoning about equivalent equations.

Unit 7: Positive and Negative Numbers

• Negative numbers on the number line and the coordinate plane are introduced in Unit 7.

Unit 8: Describing Data

•  The year ends with students making sense of data in Unit 8, including measures of center and spread.

For a detailed view of how the Common Core State Standards align with the texts listed above, please select the pdf below.

Common Core Standards