• Math in Focus addresses topics in greater depth at each grade.
• Click here: scope and sequence to see how mathematics skills are introduced and expanded within each grade level.
• Your sixth grader will focus on:
  • building problem-solving skills and strategies
  • comparing and ordering positive and negative numbers
  • practicing operations with positive numbers, fractions, mixed numbers and decimals
  • using rations, rates and percents
  • simplifying algebraic expressions, solving equations and inequalities, using coordinates to create graphs, writing linear equations and using tables and graphs to represent equations
  • finding the areas of polygons and circles, finding perimeter and circumferences, and finding the surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes
  • applying statistical reasoning to data sets, and finding the mean, median and mode of data sets

Supporting at Home

• You can help your child build confidence as well as communication skills in mathematics by practicing newly acquired skills at home by encouraging opportunities to use math in everyday situations.
• While reading newspapers and magazines, invite your child to:
  • find examples of fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, percents and negative numbers
  • read graphs and discuss how they display information, or what coordinates on the graphs they represent
  • look for the word "average" and decide what it means in the context of the article
• At home or at a store, challenge your child to:
  • determine unit rates for the prices of different brands or sizes of the same item
  • create algebraic expressions to represent numbers such as the average price of your purchases
  • find volumes of items listed on the product labels and estimate the surface area of boxes or cans
• On car or bus trips, ask your child to:
  • find the ratio of how far you have traveled to the total length of your trip
  • estimate your rate of travel
  • identify different polygons and circles, and, if possible, estimate their area