What is sixth grade math? The goal is to become more fluent in arithmetic (including fractions, decimals, percents, exponents, and negative numbers) and also to prepare prealgebra skills. Not all schools and teachers around the world cover the same topics in the same depth in 6th grade, yet at this stage the student is generally learning a variety of arithmetic and prealgebra skills. This sixth grade math workbook includes:

• order of operations
• ratios and proportions
• prime factorization (including factor trees and ladder diagrams)
• fractions, decimals, and percents
• data analysis (including histograms, box-and-whisker, stem-and-leaf, and dot plots)
• negative numbers
• exponents and squareroots
• geometric figures and the coordinate plane
• direct and inverse relationships
• a first introduction to working with variables
• financial mathematics
• and other sixth grade math and prealgebra skills

The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook to share his strategies for applying arithmetic and prealgebra skills.