Math
The heart of the year is ratios, unit rates, and percents as a rate per 100. Kids also work with equivalent ratios, begin negative numbers, and write and evaluate simple expressions. A page often pairs a clean computation with a bar or table.
Sixth grade is the year of ratios, unit rates and percents: how 12 apples for $9 becomes a price per apple, or what 25% of 80 leaves is. Packs keep a bar or table on the page so the rate is something you can see, not only a formula.
Here’s a page from a 6th-grade sample, made for a kid who loves fall markets and lucky cats. The name on it, Ari, is made up.
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Name and Date on every page.
A playful title with the kid’s name, here, Ari’s Fall Market Math.
A theme from what they love Here, a lucky cat, leaves and a coin, used again in the percent story.
Short instructions to find unit rates and percents, and to use the bar picture for the morning sales.
Main practice unit rates, then percent as a rate per 100: 25% of 80 gold leaves, and 15 is what percent of 60.
A picture puzzle Here, a bar that shows 80 leaves, with 25% shaded for the morning sales.
A short review equivalent ratios, to keep an earlier skill warm.
An optional star challenge marked “if you want.” Here, how much honey for a whole batch if ½ cup is for ¼ batch.
A 6th-grade pack is sized for one sitting, with a bar model and an optional star after the rate work.
Text back a photo of a finished sheet and the next pack can stay with percents or move on.
The heart of the year is ratios, unit rates, and percents as a rate per 100. Kids also work with equivalent ratios, begin negative numbers, and write and evaluate simple expressions. A page often pairs a clean computation with a bar or table.
Texts ask for more inference and evidence. Kids summarize, explain an author’s point, and write a short argument or explanation. The theme can show up in a market story or a science note on the same pack.
Sixth-grade science often includes cells, weather and climate, and energy. A fall-market or outdoor theme can carry a measurement or percent story without crowding the math.
A real pack Juno made, with a made-up name on it. Download the PDF to print it at home.
Unit rates, percents, a bar model for morning sales, and a star challenge, with a lucky cat at the fall market.
Download PDFText Juno that your child is in 6th grade and what they love. If rates, percents or fractions need work, say so. You’ll get a pack with their name on it. A photo of the graded pages shapes the next one.
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Juno makes packs for TK through 8th grade.