Maine sixth-grade math standards

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6.A Number
  • 6.A.1 Students use factors and multiples.
  • 6.A.1.a Identify prime numbers and composite numbers and use their properties to solve problems.
  • 6.A.1.b Use the property that every integer greater than one is a prime number or can be written as a unique product of prime numbers.
  • 6.A.1.c Interpret and use exponential notation as repeated multiplication.
  • 6.A.1.d Find the least common multiple and greatest common factor of two numbers.
  • 6.A.2 Students express fractions greater than 0 as decimals and compare positive numbers that are written as fractions and decimals and place them on the number line.
  • 6.A.3 Students add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers expressed as fractions and as decimals including mixed numbers.
  • 6.A.4 Students understand how to express relative quantities as percentages and as decimals and fractions.
  • 6.A.4.a Use ratios to describe relationships between quantities.
  • 6.A.4.b Use decimals, fractions, and percentages to express relative quantities.
  • 6.A.4.c Interpret relative quantities expressed as decimals, fractions, and percentages.
  • 6.A.5 Students multiply and divide decimals with up to three decimal places by tens, hundreds, and thousands.
6.B Data
  • 6.B.1 Students convert within measurement systems.
  • 6.B.1.a Solve problems where different units are used within the metric and traditional systems of measurement.
  • 6.B.2 Students read and interpret pie charts.
  • 6.B.3 Students find and compare the mean, median, mode, and range for sets of data.
6.C Geometry
  • 6.C.1 Students represent solid figures in two dimensions.
  • 6.C.1.a Represent cubes, prisms, and square-based or triangular-based pyramids using nets.
  • 6.C.1.b Recognize and classify solids presented in picture views.
  • 6.C.1.c Sketch three- dimensional figures.
  • 6.C.2 Students find the perimeters and areas of geometric figures.
  • 6.C.2.a Triangles
  • 6.C.2.b Quadrilaterals
  • 6.C.2.c Circles
  • 6.C.3 Students find the volume and surface areas of right prisms with bases that are triangles and quadrilaterals.
  • 6.C.4 Students understand and use reflections, rotations, and translations to define and identify congruent plane figures.
  • 6.C.4.a Apply the understanding that if a plane figure can be laid on top of another plane figure by rotations, translations, or reflections then the figures are congruent.
  • 6.C.5 Students understand how to use proportional relationships to make indirect linear measurements and use scale drawings to make linear measurements.
6.D Algebra
  • 6.D.1 Students create and evaluate expressions.
  • 6.D.1.a Create and evaluate expressions using whole numbers.
  • 6.D.1.b Create and evaluate expressions using positive fractions including decimals.
  • 6.D.2 Students recognize and solve problems involving linear equations and recognize examples and non-examples of linear equations.
  • 6.D.2.a Solve equations of the form ax +/- b = c where a, b, and c are whole numbers.
  • 6.D.2.b Recognize from a table whether a relationship has a constant rate of change.
  • 6.D.3 Students use tables, formulas, diagrams, and graphs to analyze relationships between quantities.
  • 6.D.3.a Use tables, formulas and graphs to analyze constant difference (additive) relationships.
  • 6.D.3.b Use tables, formulas, and graphs to analyze constant ratio (multiplicative) relationships.