Grade Six Description

The secondary curriculum begins in the sixth grade, where the concept of the unknown is solidified through the study of expressions and equations in a wide range of settings.  The rational numbers are thoroughly explored in a variety of forms including fraction, decimal, and percent.  Examples of rational numbers in a real world context involve the concepts of ratio, proportion, percentage, and rate.   The concepts of shape and angle are studied, and formulas for area and volume are discovered.  Various methods of representing data are then used, and probabilities of events are calculated.