🔢 Grade 6 Math

Units

1. Unit 1

   ➖Integers & Decimals

   Meeting negative numbers on a number line, comparing and ordering integers, decimals and fractions, working with thousandths, and rounding decimals.

   Learning outcome: 6N1.1 · positive and negative numbers, comparing integers and decimals to thousandths

2. Unit 2

   ➖Adding and Subtracting Integers

   Using a number line to add and subtract positive and negative integers, additive inverses, comparing integers and winter temperature changes.

   Learning outcome: 6N1.2, 6N1.3 · adding and subtracting integers, opposites that add to zero, and comparing integers

3. Unit 3

   🌳Factors & Primes

   Using divisibility rules for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10, telling prime from composite, and writing a number as a product of prime factors.

   Learning outcome: 6N3.1 · divisibility, prime and composite numbers and prime factorization

4. Unit 4

   ⚡Powers and Common Factors

   Reading and writing powers such as 3⁴, evaluating them, order of operations with powers, writing prime factorizations with exponents, and finding common factors and the greatest common factor.

   Learning outcome: 6N3.1, 6N3.2, 6A1.1 · exponents, prime factorization with powers, common factors and evaluating expressions with powers

5. Unit 5

   🧮Decimal × and ÷

   Multiplying and dividing decimals, estimating to check where the decimal point goes, and solving shopping and measurement problems.

   Learning outcome: 6N2.1, 6N4.1 · adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals with standard algorithms

6. Unit 6

   🍕Fractions

   Adding and subtracting fractions that have different denominators, and multiplying or dividing whole numbers by fractions such as 2/3.

   Learning outcome: 6N5.1, 6N6.1, 6N7.1 · fractions as quotients, adding and subtracting fractions, and multiplying a fraction by a whole number

7. Unit 7

   💯Percents & Ratios

   Finding 1%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 25% and 50% of a number in your head, and solving ratio, rate and percent problems.

   Learning outcome: 6N8.1 · unit rates, equivalent ratios and percent of a number

8. Unit 8

   ⚖️Equations

   Using the order of operations (brackets, then × and ÷, then + and −) and solving one-step equations like 6n = 42 with inverse operations, including writing equations for word problems.

   Learning outcome: 6A1.1, 6A1.3 · order of operations and solving one- and two-step equations

9. Unit 9

   📈Patterns & Graphs

   Describing growing and shrinking patterns with rules like 3n + 2, using tables and graphs to predict values, and reading change over time from line graphs.

   Learning outcome: 6P1.1 · functions as tables of values, expressions and graphs

10. Unit 10

    🪞Symmetry and Congruence

    Lines of symmetry in regular and irregular polygons, rotational symmetry and turn angles, congruent shapes, which moves keep a shape congruent, and tiling a surface.

    Learning outcome: 6G1.1, 6G1.2 · reflection and rotational symmetry, regular polygons, congruent shapes and tessellations

11. Unit 11

    🔄Transformations

    Translating, reflecting and rotating points and shapes on a coordinate grid, and combining two transformations in a row.

    Learning outcome: 6G1.2, 6CG1.1, 6CG1.2 · the Cartesian plane and translations, reflections and rotations

12. Unit 12

    📐Perimeter & Area

    Finding the perimeter of L-shapes and other polygons, and the area of triangles (b × h ÷ 2), parallelograms (b × h) and trapezoids ((a + b) × h ÷ 2), including working backwards to a missing measurement.

    Learning outcome: 6M1.1, 6M1.2 · area of parallelograms, triangles and composite figures

13. Unit 13

    🧊Volume & Capacity

    Finding the volume of rectangular prisms, converting between litres and millilitres, and connecting volume to capacity (1 cm³ holds 1 mL).

    Learning outcome: 6M2.1 · volume of rectangular prisms