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Math 6 (Math A)
Course Overview
Students in Math 6 continue to use mathematics to model real world situations.
- In Unit 1, students explore potential misuses of statistics and the role of statistics in the real world using frequency tables, circle graphs, and measures of central tendency.
- In Unit 2, students examine the interchangeable role of fractions, decimals, and percents and how each can be used to represent the same quantity. These different forms of rational numbers are studied in many different contexts, including measurement and time problems and continuing development of the student’s proportional reasoning.
- In Unit 3, students study geometry while working with diagrams, hands-on tools, and numeric relationships to investigate relationships in two-dimensional figures and three-dimensional shapes.
- In Unit 4, students continue to develop algebraic reasoning and generalizing as they examine different representations of relationships (table, graph, expression, equation, function, as well as verbal models) to solve problems.
- In Unit 5, students build on their understanding of listing potential outcomes to consider and determine both experimental and theoretical probability.
Course Description
Get an explanation of what your child will be learning in Math 6 in the Middle School Course Bulletin.
Curriculum Resources
Curriculum Framework
The framework is a document showing what students will know and be able to do by the end of each grade, as related to the Maryland State Standards.
Textbook Resources
MCPS is using one textbook county-wide in Math 6 (Math A):
"Mathematics: Applications and Connections - Course 1, " Glencoe/McGraw Hill, Copyright 2001
Glencoe Course 1 web site