Maine State Standards for Mathematics: Grade 6

ME.A. Number: Students use numbers in everyday and mathematical contexts to quantify or describe phenomena, develop concepts of operations with different types of numbers, use the structure and properties of numbers with operations to solve problems, and perfor

A.1. Whole Number: Students use factors and multiples.

A.1.a. Identify prime numbers and composite numbers and use their properties to solve problems.

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.

A.1.c. Interpret and use exponential notation as repeated multiplication.

A.1.d. Find the least common multiple and greatest common factor of two numbers.

A.2. Rational Number: 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.

A.3. Rational Number: Students add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers expressed as fractions and as decimals including mixed numbers.

A.4. Rational Number: Students understand how to express relative quantities as percentages and as decimals and fractions.

A.4.a. Use ratios to describe relationships between quantities.

A.4.b. Use decimals, fractions, and percentages to express relative quantities.

A.4.c. Interpret relative quantities expressed as decimals, fractions, and percentages.

A.5. Rational Number: Students multiply and divide decimals with up to three decimal places by tens, hundreds, and thousands.

ME.B. Data: Students make measurements and collect, display, evaluate, analyze, and compute with data to describe or model phenomena and to make decisions based on data. Students compute statistics to summarize data sets and use concepts of probability to make

B.1. Measurement and Approximation: Students convert within measurement systems.

B.1.a. Solve problems where different units are used within the metric and traditional systems of measurement.

B.2. Data Analysis: Students read and interpret pie charts.

B.3. Data Analysis: Students find and compare the mean, median, mode, and range for sets of data.

ME.C. Geometry: Students use measurement and observation to describe objects based on their sizes and shapes; model or construct two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects; solve problems involving geometric properties; compute areas and volumes based on obj

C.1. Geometric Figures: Students represent solid figures in two dimensions.

C.1.a. Represent cubes, prisms, and square-based or triangular-based pyramids using nets.

C.1.b. Recognize and classify solids presented in picture views.

C.1.c. Sketch three- dimensional figures.

C.2. Geometric Measurement: Students find the perimeters and areas of geometric figures.

C.2.a. Triangles

C.2.b. Quadrilaterals

C.2.c. Circles

C.3. Geometric Measurement: Students find the volume and surface areas of right prisms with bases that are triangles and quadrilaterals.

C.4. Transformations: Students understand and use reflections, rotations, and translations to define and identify congruent plane figures.

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.

C.5. Transformations: Students understand how to use proportional relationships to make indirect linear measurements and use scale drawings to make linear measurements.

ME.D. Algebra: Students use symbols to represent or model quantities, patterns, and relationships and use symbolic manipulation to evaluate expressions and solve equations. Students solve problems using symbols, tables, graphs, and verbal rules choosing the mos

D.1. Symbols and Expressions: Students create and evaluate expressions.

D.1.a. Create and evaluate expressions using whole numbers.

D.1.b. Create and evaluate expressions using positive fractions including decimals.

D.2. Equations and Inequalities: Students recognize and solve problems involving linear equations and recognize examples and non-examples of linear equations.

D.2.a. Solve equations of the form ax +/- b = c where a, b, and c are whole numbers.

D.2.b. Recognize from a table whether a relationship has a constant rate of change.

D.3. Functions and Relations: Students use tables, formulas, diagrams, and graphs to analyze relationships between quantities.

D.3.a. Use tables, formulas, and graphs to analyze constant difference (additive) relationships.

D.3.b. Use tables, formulas, and graphs to analyze constant ratio (multiplicative) relationships.