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6th grade math: what your child learns, and how to help

6th grade math is mostly about ratios and rates, negative numbers, and expressions and equations. Here is what that means, where children often get stuck, and simple ways to help at home.

What your child learns in 6th grade

Ratios and rates

Use ratio language, tables and unit rates; solve percent problems.

Dividing fractions

Divide fractions by fractions and explain why it works with a model.

Negative numbers

Place positive and negative numbers on a number line, and plot points in all four quadrants.

Expressions and equations

Write and evaluate expressions with variables, and solve one-step equations like x + 7 = 15 and 3x = 21.

Geometry and statistics

Find area of triangles and polygons, surface area and volume, and describe data with mean, median and spread.

Based on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Your state or school may order topics differently.

Where children often get stuck

How to help at home

How Kidscient helps with 6th grade math

  • It starts from your child's level, not their grade. A short, friendly check finds what your child can already do. Many children are ahead in some topics and behind in others.
  • Homework help without answers. Your child snaps tonight's math homework and Curio helps with each problem by asking and hinting. Your child writes every answer. Code checks the arithmetic.
  • Guided lessons on a whiteboard. Curio explains each step out loud while drawing it, then asks your child to try. Lessons open level by level; at the founding beta they start around the grade 4 level.
  • Voice-first. Your child talks through their thinking, which is where the learning happens.

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Parents also ask

What math is taught in 6th grade?
In most US schools, 6th grade math focuses on ratios and rates, negative numbers, and expressions and equations. These topics follow the Common Core State Standards, which most states use or adapted.
How can I help my 6th grader with math at home?
Compare unit prices at the grocery store. Talk about temperatures below zero. Ask your child to write their own word problem.
My child finds 6th grade math too easy. What should we do?
Work on the next level rather than more of the same. Kidscient places children by what they can do, so a child who is ahead moves ahead.

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