How to learn Grade 6: Mathematics
Tennessee academic standards: Mathematics, Grade 6
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1. Grade 6 · Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.
- Calculating the Mean: Calculate and interpret the mean as an average of a data set
2. Grade 6 · Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another.
- Algebraic Transformations: Model situations or procedures by translating them into algebraic expressions or formulae and by using graphs; move between word problems, algebraic representations, tables, and graphical representations
3. Grade 6 · Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which variables stand for numbers.
- Substituting into Formulae: Substitute numerical values into formulae and expressions including scientific formulae; evaluate expressions by replacing variables with given values and computing the result using correct order of operations
- Expressions & Equations Vocabulary: Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, inequalities, terms, and factors; distinguish between an expression (no equals sign), an equation (equals sign), and an inequality (inequality sign)
4. Grade 6 · Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
- Numbers on a number line: Understand the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from zero on the number line; interpret absolute value as magnitude in real-world contexts; distinguish absolute value comparisons from ordering statements
5. Grade 6 · Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane wit
- Numbers on a number line: Understand a coordinate system defined by two perpendicular number lines (axes) with an origin at (0,0); know that an ordered pair (x, y) specifies a unique point where the first number gives horizontal distance and the second gives vertical distance from the origin
- Positive and Negative Numbers: Understand positive and negative numbers as describing quantities with opposite directions or values; use them in context such as temperature, floors in a building, and bank balances
6. Grade 6 · Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems (e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations).
- Proportional Reasoning Vocabulary: Know and use advanced vocabulary of multiplicative reasoning — direct proportion, inverse proportion, ratio, rate, unit rate, compound unit, scale factor — accurately in problem-solving contexts
- Bar Models for Ratios: Represent ratio and proportion problems using bar models (rectangular strips divided into equal parts labelled with quantities) and tape diagrams (segmented strips showing part-to-part and part-to-whole relationships); use these visual models to set up and solve unequal sharing, scaling, and percentage problems — drawing the diagram first, then reading off the answer
- Dividing Quantities by Ratio: Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part:part or part:whole ratio, and express the division as a fraction of the whole