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6th grade math worksheets

Need the right level, not just the grade label? Start wherever your child feels comfortable.

What to practice this year

Negative numbers are the year's first real reversal. The number line, which has been a ruler since kindergarten, extends to the left, and subtraction stops meaning "take away" and starts meaning "how far apart, in which direction". A child who is fluent with the facts can still stall here, because the difficulty is not arithmetic — it is that 3 − 7 finally has an answer.

Why these skills come next

Ratios, percents, and fractions are one idea wearing three costumes. 3 out of 4, 3 : 4, 3/4, and 75% are the same relationship written for different jobs, and grade six is when a child is expected to move between them without re-deriving each one. Practicing them near each other is what builds that, which is why the ratio and percent sheets sit side by side here.

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Warm up from grade 5

The two ways of looking inside a number that fraction work keeps asking for.

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Numbers go negative

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide across zero.

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Ratio, proportion, and percent

The same comparison written as a ratio, a rate, and a percent.

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Finish the fraction and decimal work

The last two operations, where the method stops resembling the whole-number one.

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First steps into algebra

Powers, then solving for a letter by keeping both sides equal.

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Area and solids

Past the rectangle: the height that is not a slant side, and a box measured two ways.