US edition · 6th grade
6th grade maths: Common Core coverage
29 of 29 Common Core standards for 6th grade maths are practised in the app. Each one is listed with the skills that practise it. A skill can serve standards from more than one grade, and children can work at a different level in each subject.
Standards and the skills that practise them
- 6.RP.A.1
- Ratio and proportion problems: Can use a ratio to find an unknown quantity, such as ingredients in a recipe.
- Simplify a ratio: Can write a ratio in its simplest form, including with mixed units.
- 6.RP.A.2
- Ratio and proportion problems: Can use a ratio to find an unknown quantity, such as ingredients in a recipe.
- Direct proportion (unit rate): Can find the cost of any number of items from the cost of some.
- The better buy: Can compare prices by working out the cost per unit.
- 6.RP.A.3
- Percentages: Can find simple percentages of amounts and match them to fractions.
- Fractions, decimals and percentages: Can convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, including eighths.
- Percentages of amounts: Can find any percentage of an amount, such as 35% of 240.
- Share in a ratio: Can share an amount in a given ratio.
- Scale factors: Can dilate a length by a scale factor and find a missing length in similar shapes.
- One number as a percentage of another: Can work out what percentage one amount is of another.
- Ratio and proportion problems: Can use a ratio to find an unknown quantity, such as ingredients in a recipe.
- Convert units of area: Can convert between cm² and mm², and between m² and cm².
- Simplify a ratio: Can write a ratio in its simplest form, including with mixed units.
- Share in a three-part ratio: Can divide an amount in a ratio with three parts.
- Ratios as fractions and percentages: Can turn a ratio into the fraction or percentage of the whole each part represents.
- Speed, distance and time: Can use speed = distance ÷ time to find any of the three.
- Currency conversion: Can convert between currencies using an exchange rate.
- 6.NS.A.1
- Multiply and divide fractions: Can multiply and divide fractions, including by another fraction.
- 6.NS.B.2
- Long division: Can divide a number up to four digits by a two-digit number.
- 6.NS.B.3
- Add and subtract decimals: Can add and subtract decimals with different numbers of decimal places.
- Multiply decimals: Can multiply two decimals, such as 2.4 × 1.5.
- Divide by a decimal: Can divide by a decimal by scaling both numbers, such as 7.2 ÷ 0.4.
- 6.NS.B.4
- Greatest common factor and lowest common multiple: Can find the greatest common factor or lowest common multiple of two numbers.
- Prime factorization: Can write a number as a product of its prime factors.
- GCF and LCM of larger numbers: Can find the GCF and LCM of two numbers up to 200.
- 6.NS.C.5
- Negative numbers: Can count backwards through zero and order negative numbers.
- Negative numbers in context: Can count through zero and work out temperature changes.
- Calculate across zero: Can find the difference between negative and positive numbers.
- 6.NS.C.6
- Coordinates in four quadrants: Can read and place points in all four quadrants.
- 6.NS.C.7
- Order fractions, decimals and percentages: Can put a mixed list of fractions, decimals and percentages in order.
- 6.NS.C.8
- Distance on the coordinate plane: Can find the distance between two points that share an x or a y value.
- 6.EE.A.1
- Square and cube numbers: Can work out squares up to 12² and cubes up to 5³.
- Powers and roots: Can work out squares, cubes, higher powers and square roots.
- Order of operations with powers: Can evaluate a calculation with parentheses, powers, multiplication and addition in the correct order.
- 6.EE.A.2
- Use a simple formula: Can substitute a number into a formula such as cost = 3n + 2.
- Substitute into expressions: Can substitute positive and negative numbers into an expression, including squares.
- Expressions from words: Can write an expression such as '3 more than twice n' as 2n + 3.
- 6.EE.A.3
- Collect like terms: Can simplify an expression by collecting like terms.
- Expand with the distributive property: Can expand an expression like 3(x + 4).
- Factor out a common factor: Can take out a common factor, such as 6x + 9 = 3(2x + 3).
- 6.EE.A.4
- Collect like terms: Can simplify an expression by collecting like terms.
- 6.EE.B.5
- Solve a missing-number equation: Can find the unknown in an equation such as 3x + 4 = 19.
- Inequalities: Can list the integers that satisfy an inequality such as −2 < x ≤ 3.
- 6.EE.B.6
- Two unknowns: Can find two numbers from their sum and difference.
- 6.EE.B.7
- Solve a missing-number equation: Can find the unknown in an equation such as 3x + 4 = 19.
- 6.EE.B.8
- Inequalities: Can list the integers that satisfy an inequality such as −2 < x ≤ 3.
- 6.EE.C.9
- Use a simple formula: Can substitute a number into a formula such as cost = 3n + 2.
- Line graphs: Can read a line graph's values from a table and describe the change.
- 6.G.A.1
- Area of triangles and parallelograms: Can calculate the area of a triangle or parallelogram from its base and height.
- Area of a trapezoid: Can calculate the area of a trapezoid.
- 6.G.A.2
- Volume of prisms and surface area of rectangular prisms: Can find the volume of a prism and the surface area of a rectangular prism.
- 6.G.A.3
- Coordinates in four quadrants: Can read and place points in all four quadrants.
- 6.G.A.4
- Faces, edges and vertices of prisms and pyramids: Can count the faces, edges and vertices of a prism or pyramid.
- Volume of prisms and surface area of rectangular prisms: Can find the volume of a prism and the surface area of a rectangular prism.
- 6.SP.A.1
- Statistical questions: Can tell a question that expects different answers from one that has a single answer.
- 6.SP.A.2
- Dot plots and the shape of data: Can read a dot plot and describe where the data clusters, peaks and spreads.
- 6.SP.A.3
- The mean: Can calculate the mean of a set of numbers.
- Mean, median, mode and range: Can find all four averages and the range of a data set.
- 6.SP.B.4
- Dot plots and the shape of data: Can read a dot plot and describe where the data clusters, peaks and spreads.
- 6.SP.B.5
- The mean: Can calculate the mean of a set of numbers.
- Mean, median, mode and range: Can find all four averages and the range of a data set.
- Averages from a frequency table: Can find the mode, median and mean from a frequency table.
- Quartiles and the five-number summary: Can find the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and maximum of a data set.
- Interquartile range: Can calculate the interquartile range of a data set.