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Virginia Standards

6th Grade Math SOL

All 15 Virginia math standards for 6th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

15 standards

Number and Number Sense

3 standards
6.NS.1
Convert among fractions, mixed numbers, decimals and percents, including percents above 100% or below 1%, and compare and order up to four of them using number lines.
6.NS.2
Show integers on a number line and with models, compare and order them with symbols, and explain absolute value as a number's distance from zero, like |-6| = 6.
6.NS.3
Spot patterns in powers like 2³ = 8, model perfect squares up to 20², tell whether a number to 400 is a perfect square, and link powers of 10 to place value.

Computation and Estimation

2 standards
6.CE.1
Multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers with denominators to 12, explain what multiplying or dividing by a number under 1 does, and solve fraction word problems.
6.CE.2
Model and compute all four operations with two integers, simplify absolute value expressions like |3 - 9|, and solve one- and two-step integer word problems.

Measurement and Geometry

4 standards
6.MG.1
Name a circle's radius, diameter, chord and circumference, find pi as circumference divided by diameter, and compute circumference and area from the radius or diameter.
6.MG.2
Derive the area formulas for parallelograms and triangles by cutting and rearranging shapes on grid paper, and use them to solve area and perimeter problems.
6.MG.3
Label the axes, origin and four quadrants, plot and read integer points, tell which quadrant a point is in, and draw polygons to find side lengths from coordinates.
6.MG.4
Identify regular polygons, draw lines of symmetry that split them into matching halves, and decide whether segments, angles or polygons are congruent from their measures.

Probability and Statistics

2 standards
6.PS.1
Pose a question, collect data from a representative sample, show it in a circle graph with parts like 7/20 or 35%, and judge which graph type shows it best.
6.PS.2
Show the mean as the balance point of a dot plot, and explain how adding, removing or changing a value, including an outlier, moves the mean, median, mode and range.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

4 standards
6.PFA.1
Write ratios as a/b, a:b or a to b to compare part to part, part to whole or whole to whole, describe a ratio in words, and build tables of equivalent ratios.
6.PFA.2
Find the unit rate in a table, graph or story, use it to fill in a ratio table, decide whether two quantities are proportional, and connect words, tables and graphs.
6.PFA.3
Write and solve one-step equations like 3x = 18 or x + 7 = -2 using algebra tiles and properties of equality, check the answer, and write equations and stories to match.
6.PFA.4
Write an inequality like x > 4 for a real situation, graph it on a number line, rewrite it as 4 < x, and test which numbers make it true.

The official Virginia documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Virginia's standards, not the official wording, which Virginia Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.