6th grade math instruction is aligned with Common Core State Standards. Major topics include: understanding ratio concepts and using them to solve problems, applying and extending previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions, computing fluency with multi-digit numbers and finding common factors and multiples, applying previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers, adding and subtracting rational numbers, representing addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number diagram, applying previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions, solving one-variable equations and inequalities, representing and analyzing relationships between dependent and independent variables, solving real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume, developing understanding of statistical variability, and summarizing and describing distributions.