Grade 6 Math Lessons

Students learn about area, ratios, and percentages in real world contexts. They'll divide fractions, solve equations with decimals, and more with lessons from our complete, standards-aligned math program, Amplify Desmos Math.

Grades: 6th Grade

• Area and Surface Area

  Students develop strategies for calculating the areas of parallelograms, triangles, and polygons, including generalizing and using formulas.

• Letters
• Shapes on a Plane
• Exploring Parallelograms, Part 1
• Exploring Parallelograms, Part 2
• Off the Grid, Part 1
• Exploring Triangles
• Off the Grid, Part 2
• Triangles and Parallelograms
• Pile of Polygons
• Renata's Stickers

• Introducing Ratios

  Students learn what ratios are, how to describe them, and how to generate equivalent ratios. They’ll solve real-world problems using ratio tables.

• Pizza Maker
• Fruit Lab
• Disaster Preparation

• Unit Rates and Percentages

  Students apply prior knowledge about different units of measurement, recognize ratio relationships have two unit rates, and use those unit rates to solve problems involving tables of equivalent ratios.

• Many Measurements
• World Records
• Model Trains
• Soft Serve
• Welcome to the Robot Factory
• More Soft Serve
• Lucky Duckies

• Dividing Fractions

  Students use real-world problems to reason about what it means to divide by a fraction, calculate quotients of two fractions, and solve problems about areas and volumes with dimensions that are fractions.

• Flour Planner
• Fill the Gap
• Puzzling Areas

• Decimal Arithmetic

  Students reason, estimate, and make calculations with decimals, including dividing decimals.

• Dishing Out Decimals
• Decimal Diagrams and Algorithms
• Movie Time

• Expressions and Equations

  Students write and solve equations with unknown values, develop fluency solving equations that include decimals and fractions, and use tables, graphs, and equations to interpret relationships.

• Weight for It
• Five Equations
• Hanging Around
• Hanging It Up
• Swap and Solve
• Products and Sums
• Subway Fares

• Positive and Negative Numbers

  Students are introduced to negative numbers, comparing positive and negative numbers, and graphing inequalities on a number line.

• Can You Dig It?
• Order in the Class
• Tunnel Travels

• Describing Data

  Students answer statistical questions and analyze dot plots and histograms. They’re introduced to the mean and calculate the mean absolute deviation of a data set, as well as to a second way to measure center–the median.

• Minimum Wage
• The Plot Thickens
• Hoops
• Toy Cars

• Boost Personalized Learning

  Differentiate instruction for your students and make math accessible with targeted small group intervention and personalized practice!

• Grade 6: Personalized Learning and Intervention

• Amplify Classroom Favorites

  Explore these other free math lessons and activities, including favorites from Desmos Classroom! Copy and edit to customize these and make them your own.

• Battle Boats
• Bridges of Königsberg
• Balloon Float
• Fall Hanger Diagrams
• Mini Golf Marbleslides
• Point Collector
• Pounds of Pumpkins
• Ring Toss Boss
• The (Awesome) Coordinate Plane Activity