Critical Areas of Focus
Common Core Grade 6: Instructional time will focus on four critical areas::
- Connecting ratio, rate, and percentage to whole- number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems;
- Completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers;
- Writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations;
- Developing understanding of statistical thinking (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers 2010m). Students also work toward fluency with multi-digit division and multi-digit decimal operations.