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Grade 6 Essential Learning – September 2014
Students will be tested on the following material in mid-September.
The skills listed below are considered important to a student’s success in 6th grade math. It
will be assumed that these skills have been mastered. They will be incorporated into more
challenging concepts with minimal time for reteaching.
Below is a list of essential skills for 66h grade math:
Multiplication Facts/Times Tables
Have their times tables through 12 memorized.
Be able to recite those facts “backwards and forwards.”
Example: 7 x 6 = _____
108 ÷ 9 = _____
There will be a quiz on this within the first two weeks of the academic year. Students will
be given 50 questions in 3 minutes. A good website to practice is multiplication.com.
Number and Operations
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers
Long division with a two digit divisor
Example: 424 ÷ 18
Long division with showing the quotient in decimal format instead of “remainder”
Example: 100 ÷ 16 = 6.25 as opposed to 6 remainder 4
Place Value of decimals to the thousandths place/ correctly reading and writing decimals.
Rounding decimals:
Example: Round 19.426 to the nearest tenths place
Powers of 10:
Example: 103 = 1,000
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals
Examples:
2.1 + 3.29 =
18 – 4.3 =
4.1 x 3.9 =
69.3 ÷ 0.3 =
How to multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by powers of 10 by moving the
decimal
Example:
4.6 ÷ 100 =
0.6 x 1,000 =
How to model decimals and operations with decimals on a grid
Order of Operations
Properties – Identity, Commutative, Associative and Distributive
Fractions/Decimals
Simplify a fraction/identify simplest form/equivalent fractions
3
1
=
6
2
Example:
Make a mixed number into an improper fraction/improper fraction into a mixed number
1
9
Example:
  2 =
4
4
Add fractions and mixed numbers


Subtract fractions
and mixed numbers, including borrowing
Example:
7
1
4
- 3 =
10
5
Multiply fractions, whole numbers, and mixed numbers

 3
2
Examples:
x
=
4
3
1


1
1
x 3 =
2
4
Divide a whole number by a fraction, fraction by a whole number

 1
Examples:
÷3=
3
4÷

1
=
2
Model operations with fractions

Change a decimal into a fraction/fraction into a decimal.
Examples:
1
= 0.2
5
0.75 =
3
4
 fractions, mixednumbers and decimals
Order and compare
Measurement
How to use a ruler in both customary (inches to the nearest 1/8 inch) and metric
How to convert between different units of measurement (length, capacity, weight) in both
metric and customary
Line Plots:
How to create and to read a line plot
How to create a frequency chart
How to calculate the average or “fair share”
Geometry:
Volume: How to find the volume of a simple rectangular prism and a combined rectangular
prism
How to calculate area and perimeter and apply this to real life problems (ex: framing a
picture, planting a garden.)
Plot and identify points in the first quadrant of a coordinate grid.
Identify the properties of quadrilaterals and classify them.
Example: A square is a type of rectangle.
RESOURCES TO USE for PRACTICE and REVIEW
5th grade textbooks (consumable – they should be home)
Textbook website available until the end of August
Study Island (username and password are good for the summer)
Ten marks (flyer provided)
Buckle down