Overview of 6th Grade Common Core Mathematics

Ratios and Proportional Relationships
• Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
 

The Number System
• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
• Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
• Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
 

Expressions and Equations
• Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
• Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
• Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
 

Geometry
• Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
 

Statistics and Probability
• Develop understanding of statistical variability.
• Summarize and describe distributions.