Grade 6
Math: Ratios and Proportional Relationships and Number System

Use the information below to get a deeper understanding of what your child has mastered and areas where your child may need more help. There are also resources you can use to find activities to support your child’s learning at home.

Help can I help my child progress?

Next Steps

Here are some exercises you can work on at home with your Grade 6 student.

Below Mastery

With your student, look at everyday examples of rates such as miles per hour or cost per pound. Write positive and negative numbers and ask your student to determine how far they are from 0.

At or Near Mastery

With your student, look at scales on maps. Explain a ratio such as 1 inch = 1/3 mile. Can you express this using only whole numbers? What length on the map would represent 4/3 miles? 4/5 mile?

Above Mastery

With your student, look at the price and the net weight of boxes of cereal. Decide which cereal costs the least per ounce. Find the temperatures of 5 cities (some negative) to analyze on a number line, and examine absolute value as a distance.

Talking With Your Child's Teacher

This document titled “Moving Forward: A Guide for Conversations with Your Child’s Teacher” includes helpful tips and questions to discuss with the teacher about your child’s classroom performance, academic progress, and more.

Additional Free Resources Available to Support Your Child's Learning

Use this information to have a meaningful conversation with your child’s teacher about the skills and content in the grade level and to support your child’s learning at home.

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What Can I Do to Help My Child?

Visit the college- and career-readiness resource hub for families to find tools to help your child achieve college and career readiness by the time they graduate from high school.
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Talking with your child's teacher

This document titled “Moving Forward: A Guide for Conversations with Your Child’s Teacher” includes helpful tips and questions to discuss with the teacher about your child’s classroom performance, academic progress, and more.
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