Grade 6

What your child learns in grade 6

• Grade 6 mathGrade 6 is the bridge to middle-school math: ratios and percents, negative numbers, and letters standing in for numbers. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 6 scienceGrade 6 science ranges widely: how living things are grouped, what keeps a plane in the air, how electricity flows through a circuit, and why the Moon changes shape. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 6 EnglishGrade 6 English asks children to argue: to write persuasively, to back their claims with evidence, and to read other people's arguments with a careful eye. Here is what it covers, where kids usually get stuck, and one way to help.