Grade 6 · in teaching order

Grade 6 activities

Every topic is a ready-to-teach path: warm-up, practice, application, review. Every activity is interactive, auto-graded, and randomized per student.

47 activities · 15 topics · sorted in Common Core teaching order
Ratios & Proportional Relationships
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Skill practice20 min · 6.RP.A.3 · Core
Tape Diagram Ratio Problems
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Skill practice20 min · 6.RP.A.3 · Core
Equivalent Ratio Table Relay
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Skill practice25 min · 6.RP.A.1 · Core
Ratio Reasoning with Double Number Lines
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Skill practice15 min · 6.RP.A.3a · Core
Using Ratio Tables to Solve Real-World Problems
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Worksheet20 min · 6.RP.A.2 · Review
Calculate Rates - Real-Life Scenarios
Students will calculate rates based on various real-life scenarios. Examples include determining the average speed in miles per hour or the cost per apple. These problems help students apply their understanding of ratios and rates in practical situations, reinforcing their ability to solve real-world problems involving proportional reasoning.
randomized per student · also serves Grade 7
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Skill practice20 min · 6.RP.A.2 · Core
Unit Rate Drills: Finding Rates from Word Problems
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.RP.A.1 · Apply
Global Manufacturing - Raw Material Cost Comparison
Students act as the CEO of a company, to find the cheapest country to purchase the raw materials, students will do unit conversion between different currencies.
randomized per student · also serves Grade 7
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.RP.A.2 · Apply
The Big Barbecue Day: Unit Rates
Students will find the unit rate of seven products in three stores - Farm Fresh, Market Bargain, and Quality stores. They will compare the unit prices and find the cheapest store to purchase each ingredient.
also serves Grade 7
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.RP.A.3c · Apply
Water Warriors: School Conservation Campaign Uusing Percentages
Interactive Grade 6 worksheet where students analyze 10 weeks of school water usage, calculate gallons saved, compute percent decreases, and complete a ratio table to track a conservation campaign. Auto-graded.
randomized per student
The Number System
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Skill practice20 min · 6.NS.A.1 · Core
Keep, Change, Flip: Fraction Division Fluency
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.NS.A.1 · Apply
Maya's Bakery: Recipes with Fraction Division
Step into Maya's home bakery and solve real order tickets using fraction division. Interactive sliders, live order boards, and a dynamic baking dashboard make this auto-graded Grade 6 worksheet an engaging way to master dividing fractions by fractions.
randomized per student
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Smoothie Fractions: Run the Bar
60 min total · intro deck included
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Skill practice10 min · 6.NS.B.3 · Core
Decimal Division Puzzle
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Real-World Worksheet15 min · 6.NS.B.4 · Apply
Packing & Planning the Festival Using GCF & LCM
Turn GCF and LCM into a real job. In this interactive Spring Festival worksheet, students pack fair goodie bags (GCF) and sync ride and show schedules (LCM) across 18 auto-graded problems. Every item connects the math to a reason, with instant feedback as students type. Common Core 6.NS.B.4. Randomization-ready, so each student can get unique numbers.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.NS.B.4 · Apply
Smoothie Shop: Simplifying Fractions in Recipes
Step into the Smoothie Shop and simplify real-world recipe ratios! Students practice reducing fractions to lowest terms using the greatest common factor (GCF). Perfect for introducing or reviewing simplifying fractions through a fun, food-based context.
randomized per student · also serves Grade 8
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Real-World Worksheet30 min · 6.NS.B.2 · Apply
The San Diego Street Food Festival - Multiplication & Division
Step in as Ramon's assistant and run the numbers for a 4-day San Diego food truck festival. Multiply, divide, and track revenue across 5 sequenced tables. Auto-graded, randomized, Grade 6.
randomized per student
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Research Station Zero - Number System Project
90 min total · intro deck included
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.NS.C.7a · Apply
International Falls Weather Watch: Negative Temperatures
Interactive Grade 6 worksheet where students play junior meteorologist at KFAL News 7, logging January low temps in International Falls, ordering days by temperature, writing inequalities, calculating daily swings, and delivering a Friday Night Weather Recap. Auto-graded.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.NS.C.7c · Apply
FinSight: Stock Market Analysis Using Absolute Values
Grade 6 interactive worksheet where students act as junior stock analysts, interpreting signed number changes, writing inequalities, calculating absolute values, and completing a structured analyst report. Auto-graded with randomized stock data.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet25 min · 6.NS.C.5 · Apply
USS Mariana: Submarine Navigation Using Negative Numbers
Grade 6 interactive worksheet where students navigate a research submarine through the Pacific Ocean, logging depths, calculating signed changes, and discovering absolute value. Auto-graded with randomized values.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.NS.C.8 · Apply
Drone Delivery: Navigate the City Grid
Interactive Grade 6 worksheet where students act as junior drone navigators for SkySend, reading coordinates of 10 city stops and calculating leg distances along a rectilinear route. Auto-graded with randomization support.
randomized per student
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Skill practice20 min · 6.NS.C.6 · Core
4-Quadrant Coordinate Mystery: Number 67
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Real-World Worksheet15 min · 7.G.A.1 · Apply
Scaling the City - Coordinate Geometry
Students use a city map on a coordinate grid to calculate real-world distances between locations, convert grid units to meters, and determine travel times—bringing coordinate geometry to life through practical navigation tasks.
randomized per student · also serves Grade 7
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SeasonalBack to School: My Coordinate Story10 min
Expressions & Equations
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Skill practice5 min · 6.EE.A.2a · Core
Expression Builder: Words to Algebra
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.EE.A.2a · Apply
Write the Expression - A Week in Riley's Life
Interactive Grade 6 worksheet where students follow Riley through 15 real-life scenarios across a full week and write algebraic expressions using given variables. Auto-graded with equation input. Randomization supported.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.EE.A.2c · Apply
Plug and Play - Evaluating Real-World Formulas
Interactive Grade 6 worksheet where students visit 5 science museum exhibits and evaluate real-world formulas by substituting given values. Covers exponents, fractions, and multi-variable expressions. Auto-graded with 15 problems.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.EE.A.1 · Apply
School Garden Layout Using Exponents
Help plan Westside Middle School's new garden using the power of exponents! Students calculate square herb bed areas, cube compost bin volumes, and test different garden sizes behind the cafeteria. This interactive activity teaches exponent notation, evaluation, and order of operations through real planning decisions — making 6.EE.A.1 feel like engineering, not homework.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet30 min · 6.EE.A.2 · Apply
Pizza Party Math: Writing & Simplifying Expressions
Your class just won a pizza party - now plan it with algebra! Students use Tony's Pizza Palace rate card to build a cost expression, then simplify 12p + 2s + 5 into 5(s + 1) - a shortcut so clean they can do the math in their heads. This 6-part interactive worksheet makes 6.EE.A.3 feel like a superpower, not a chore.
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Real-World Worksheet15 min · 7.EE.A.1 · Apply
Phone Plan Showdown – Mastering Expressions & Equations
Students compare three different phone plans by writing algebraic expressions to model their monthly cost. They evaluate these expressions for different data usage amounts and determine at what point one plan becomes more economical than the others.
randomized per student · also serves Grade 7
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.EE.A.3 · Apply
The Expression Lab
Interactive 6th grade math worksheet on equivalent expressions (CCSS 6.EE.A.3). Students help Dr. Raman, a city data scientist, rewrite 10 expressions by combining like terms, distributing, and factoring the GCF. Auto-graded with instant feedback: every answer is tested at 5 different inputs. Real-world scenario, built-in randomization, no prep required.
randomized per student
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Skill practice20 min · 6.EE.A.4 · Core
The Expression Equivalence Detective
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Skill practice15 min · 6.EE.B.5 · Core
Balance the Scale: Equations and Inequalities
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Skill practice15 min · 6.EE.B.7 · Core
One-Step Equations with Tape Diagrams
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.EE.C.9 · Apply
Road Trip Math: How Distance Depends on Time
Pick a car, hit the highway, and discover how distance depends on time. Students write equations, build tables, plot graphs, and compare four vehicles to see why steeper lines mean faster speeds.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 7.EE.B.3 · Apply
Lemonade Stand: Profit Using Expressions
Help plan a lemonade stand by writing expressions for cost and profit, solving inequalities to reach a profit goal, and analyzing how the number of cups sold affects earnings. Students build a table, plot a linear graph, and use a slider to visualize how profit changes—making math both real and interactive!
randomized per student · also serves Grade 7
Geometry
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.G.A.1 · Apply
Stained Glass: Area of Composite Figures
Students become the apprentice cutter at Glasswing Studio, finding the area of ten stained glass segments to fill a real commission. They decompose rectangles, triangles, L-shapes, trapezoids, and more, then convert square inches to square feet to price the glass. Interactive, auto-graded, with instant visual feedback. Aligned to 6.G.A.1. Supports per-student randomization.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.G.A.1 · Apply
Area of Composite Shapes in Medieval Ashford
Step into Medieval Ashford as an apprentice surveyor measuring seven fields for the king's tax. Students decompose rectangles, triangles, trapezoids, L-shapes, and pentagons into simple pieces, calculate areas, and convert to bushels. Interactive scroll fills with color as answers are correct. Auto-graded. Common Core 6.G.A.1.
randomized per student
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Real-World Worksheet20 min · 6.G.A.1 · Apply
Tiny House Floor Plan: Area of Composite Shapes
Short description (under 400 characters): Students design a tiny house floor plan and calculate room areas by decomposing composite shapes into rectangles and triangles. Real-world scenario with auto-grading, instant visual feedback, and cost estimation. Seven rooms including an L-shape, pentagon, and triangle. Aligned to 6.G.A.1. Grade 6 geometry. Interactive spreadsheet activity.
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Skill practice15 min · 6.G.A.2 · Core
Discovering Volume with Half-Cubes
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Real-World Worksheet15 min · 6.G.A.2 · Apply
Volume Estimation for HVAC Planning
Students use a floor plan to calculate the volume of rooms by measuring dimensions and applying the formula for volume of rectangular prisms. They then estimate the HVAC cost, connecting geometry to real-world heating and cooling applications.
also serves Grade 7
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Crate Build: Area, Volume, and Surface Area
60 min total · intro deck included
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Skill practice20 min · 6.G.A.3 · Core
Plot Polygons on the Coordinate Plane
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Statistics & Probability
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Skill practice15 min · 6.SP.A.2 · Core
Interpreting Dot Plots
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Skill practice20 min · 6.SP.B.4 · Core
Building Box Plots from Real Data
Seasonal shelf · 1 activity, shown in season
SeasonalBack to School: Know Your Classroom20 min