Mathematics 6

Unit 1: Number

Big Idea: numbers describe quantities that can be represented, compared, and operated upon in various ways. Reading numbers from thousandths to billions, finding factors and multiples, working with improper fractions and mixed numbers, and beginning ratios and percents.

• Reading and comparing very small and very large numbers

• Greatest common factor and least common multiple

• Switching between improper fractions and mixed numbers

• What a ratio compares

• Whole-number percents and figuring out a discount

Unit 2: Computational Fluency

Big Idea: development of computational fluency requires a strong sense of numbers and operations, including a consistent order for evaluating expressions. Building multiplication and division fact fluency, following the order of operations, and multiplying and dividing decimals.

• Fast and sure with facts to 100

• What to calculate first

• Multiplying and dividing decimal numbers

Unit 3: Patterns and Algebra

Big Idea: patterns can be represented in many connected ways, and equations show a relationship between an unknown quantity and known quantities. Describing increasing and decreasing patterns as functional relationships, and solving one-step equations.

• Showing a pattern with expressions, tables, and graphs

• Finding the missing whole number

Unit 4: Measurement

Big Idea: we can describe, measure, and compare spatial relationships. Measuring the perimeter of complex shapes, finding the area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids, and exploring volume and capacity.

• Measuring around an irregular, many-sided shape

• Finding the area of three flat shapes

• How much space something takes up or holds

Unit 5: Geometry

Big Idea: we can describe, measure, and compare spatial relationships. Measuring and classifying angles, and sorting triangles by their sides and angles.

• Measuring angles with a protractor and naming their type

• Sorting triangles by sides and angles

• Applying more than one transformation in a row

Unit 6: Data, Probability, and Financial Literacy

Big Idea: analyzing data highlights and questions trends, and analyzing chance offers insight into predicting outcomes; concrete experiences with money build financial literacy. Reading and building line graphs, testing single-outcome probability both by predicting and by experimenting, and simple budgeting and consumer math.

• Reading and building line graphs

• Comparing predicted and actual chance

• Building a simple budget and smart shopping math