Review and apply the year's major tools - ratios and rates, fraction and decimal operations, negative numbers, expressions and equations, and geometry and statistics - in a multi-step performance task.
This final week pulls together the whole sixth-grade toolkit: ratios and unit rates, fraction division, decimals, negative numbers and the coordinate plane, expressions and equations, area, volume, surface area, and statistics.
A performance task combines several of these tools in one real problem. The strategy is always the same: read carefully, break the problem into steps, choose the right tool for each step, and check that your final answer makes sense.
Look back at how far this year has come - from comparing simple ratios in September to solving equations, finding volumes with fractions, and describing real data by summer.
Mastery looks like: They apply multiple sixth-grade skills together in a multi-step task, with labeled steps and a sensible, checked final answer.
Common stumbles: Jumping to calculation without a plan; skipping a step in a multi-part task; not checking whether the final answer is reasonable.
See it visually
Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.