Mathematics, Grade 6

Unit 1: Number

Place value beyond a million and below a thousandth, factors and multiples, order of operations, multiplying and dividing decimals, percent, integers, improper fractions and mixed numbers, and ratio.

• Numbers greater than one million
• Numbers less than one thousandth

• Finding factors and multiples
• Factors, multiples, multiplication and division
• Prime and composite numbers

• Why we need a standard order
• Applying and checking the order

• Multiplying decimals
• Dividing decimals

• Representing percent
• Percent, fractions, and decimals

• Representing integers
• Comparing and ordering integers

• Converting improper fractions and mixed numbers
• Placing fractions on a number line

• Writing and representing ratios
• Solving ratio problems

• Researching quantity in First Nations and Métis lifestyles

Unit 2: Patterns and Relations

Patterns and relationships in tables of values and graphs, preservation of equality, and expressions and equations involving variables.

• Working with tables of values
• Graphs and how they relate to tables

• Keeping an equation balanced

• Expressions versus equations
• Generalizing formulas with variables

Unit 3: Shape and Space

Angles, perimeter and area and volume, regular and irregular polygons, the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane, and transformations of 2-D shapes.

• Classifying and estimating angles
• Measuring and drawing angles
• Angles in triangles and quadrilaterals

• Perimeter of polygons and area of rectangles
• Volume of right rectangular prisms
• Comparing measures and solving problems

• Classifying triangles and polygons
• Congruent polygons

• Plotting points in the first quadrant
• Points on the axes and distances

• Identifying and describing transformations
• Performing transformations

Unit 4: Statistics and Probability

Data analysis with line graphs and discrete-data graphs, data collection, interpolation and extrapolation, and experimental and theoretical probability.

• Line graphs and graphs of discrete data
• Collecting data and interpolating

• Sample space and theoretical probability
• Experimental probability and comparing