Mississippi Standards
Mississippi 6th Grade Math Standards
All 38 Mississippi math standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Mississippi Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.
38 standards
Standards for Mathematical Practice
8 standards6.SMP.1
Analyze ratio, rate and percent problems, choose an approach and stay with it, like comparing unit prices to find the better deal.
6.SMP.2
Move between real situations and variables, like writing 8h for earnings at $8 an hour and explaining what h and the result mean.
6.SMP.3
Argue for a solution to a ratio or equation problem with tables, diagrams or reasoning, and question whether a classmate's claim is correct.
6.SMP.4
Represent real situations with ratio tables, equations, number lines or data displays, like a dot plot of class travel times.
6.SMP.5
Choose among tools like double number lines, tape diagrams, coordinate planes and calculators, and decide when each one is useful.
6.SMP.6
Use precise terms such as ratio, rate and absolute value, label units like miles per hour, and define variables clearly.
6.SMP.7
See structure in expressions and numbers, like recognizing 24x + 18y as 6(4x + 3y) by using the distributive property.
6.SMP.8
Notice repeated calculations, like the steps in a ratio table, and generalize them into a rule or equation such as y = 3x.
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
3 standards6.RP.1
Understand what a ratio is and describe how two amounts relate with ratio words, like for every 3 cups of flour there are 2 cups of sugar.
6.RP.2
Find the unit rate behind a ratio, like $75 for 15 hamburgers is $5 per hamburger.
6.RP.3
Solve ratio, rate and percent problems with tables, tape diagrams and double number lines, including unit prices, constant speed and converting units.
The Number System
9 standards6.NS.1
Divide a fraction by a fraction and solve word problems about it, like how many 3/4-cup servings fit in 2/3 of a cup.
6.NS.2
Divide multi-digit numbers with standard long division, quickly and accurately.
6.NS.3
Add, subtract, multiply and divide multi-digit decimals with the standard written method for each.
6.NS.4
Find the greatest common factor of two numbers up to 100 and the least common multiple of two numbers up to 12, and rewrite a sum like 36 + 8 as 4 (9 + 2).
6.NS.5
Use positive and negative numbers for opposites in real life, like temperature above and below zero or money earned and owed, and say what 0 means in each case.
6.NS.6
Place positive and negative numbers on a number line, know that -(-3) = 3, and plot points with negative coordinates in all four quadrants.
6.NS.7
Order positive and negative numbers, like -3 is warmer than -7, and read absolute value as distance from 0, so a balance of -30 is a debt of 30.
6.NS.8
Solve problems by graphing points in all four quadrants and find the distance between two points that line up horizontally or vertically.
6.NS.9
Add and subtract integers on horizontal or vertical number lines, see that opposites sum to zero and subtracting means adding the opposite, and use real contexts.
Expressions and Equations
9 standards6.EE.2
Write and work out expressions with letters standing for numbers, like 5 - y, name their parts (terms, factors, coefficients) and follow the order of operations.
6.EE.3
Use the properties of operations to rewrite an expression in an equivalent form, like 3 (2 + x) as 6 + 3x.
6.EE.4
Tell when two expressions are equivalent because they always give the same value, like y + y + y and 3y.
6.EE.5
Solve equations and inequalities by finding which numbers from a given set make them true, testing each one by substituting it in.
6.EE.6
Use a letter for an unknown or changing number when writing an expression for a real problem.
6.EE.7
Solve real problems with one-step equations like x + 3 = 7 or 4x = 20, using positive whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
6.EE.8
Write an inequality like x > 5 for a real condition, know it has infinitely many solutions, and show them on a number line.
6.EE.9
Write an equation for two quantities that change together, like d = 65t for distance and time, and show the relationship in a table and a graph.
Geometry
4 standards6.G.1
Find the area of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons by splitting them into rectangles and triangles.
6.G.2
Find the volume of rectangular prisms with fraction edge lengths by packing unit fraction cubes and with V = lwh or V = Bh, in real-world problems.
6.G.3
Draw polygons from the coordinates of their corners and use the coordinates to find side lengths.
6.G.4
Unfold a 3D shape into a net of rectangles and triangles and use the net to find its surface area.
Statistics and Probability
5 standards6.SP.1
Tell a statistical question, one with varied answers like how old are the students in my school, from one with a single answer.
6.SP.3
Know that a measure of center, like the mean or median, sums up a data set in one number, while a measure of spread tells how much the values vary.
6.SP.5
Summarize a data set in its context, reporting how many values there are, what was measured, the mean or median, the spread and the overall shape.
The official Mississippi documents
- 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics · adopted 2025 · required since 2025-26
The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Mississippi's standards, not the official wording, which Mississippi Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.