Course Description

Math 6 is a rigorous, standards-based course focused on helping students develop multiple strategies to solve problems and to recognize the connections between concepts. Students are encouraged to investigate concepts, communicate their thinking and generalize.****

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Collect, organize and display data in multiple ways.
• Analyze data using measures of central tendency.
• Represent data sets using various methods and analyze how changes in data impact the representation.
• Represent and compare quantities using manipulatives, diagrams and number expressions.
• Represent multiplication using rectangular arrays.
• Model integers.
• Make sense of multiple representations of portions (decimal, fraction, percent) and convert from one form to the other.
• Compare fractions and generate equivalent fractions.
• Recognize ratios in tables and graphs and solve corresponding problems.
• Use ratios to describe relationships with similar plane figures and other situations.
• Use models and standard algorithms for computations with fractions and decimals.
• Simplify variables expressions by combining like terms and using the Distributive Property.
• Evaluate variable expressions and solve simple equations and inequalities.
• Solve distance, rate and time problems.
• Solve percent problems including those with discounts, interest and tips.
• Compute area, surface area and volume of rectangular solids.
• Represent solids using nets.