Looking for sixth grade math resources that are engaging, meaningful, standards-based, and help build conceptual understanding? Here are over 40 resources that include hands-on learning, card sorts, games, projects, group activities, and more!

6th Grade Math

Ratios & Proportions

•Friendship Bracelet Ratios

•Ratios and Proportions Real World Task

•Proportions Bingo

•Comparing Ratios Basketball Challenge

•Ratios and Proportions Group Coloring Activity

Order of Operations

•Order of Operations PowerPoint Lessons

•Ordering of Operations Cactus Practice

•Breaking Order of Operations – Error Analysis Activity

Factors

•Greatest Common Factor Card Sort

•GCF and Distributive Property Card Sort

Division

•Division of Whole Number Group Coloring Activity

Fractions

•Fraction Operations Practice

•Dividing Fractions Collaborative Coloring Practice

Positive & Negative Numbers

•Sea Level Number Line & Activities

•Printable Number Lines

•Comparing Rational Numbers Collaborative Coloring

Exponents

•Intro to Exponents and Real-World Application

Expressions & Equations

•Translating Written Expressions to Algebraic Expressions

•Combining Like Terms and Distributive Property

•Substituting Values in Expressions Practice

•Equations Group Coloring Activity

•One-Step Equations Practice - Spider Facts

Inequalities

•Inequalities Intro Activity

•Real World Inequalities Activity

•Inequalities Doctor

Graphing

•Positive and Negative Points on the Coordinate Plane

•Graphing Points Get to Know You Activity

•Coordinate Graphing Picture: Laughing Emoji

•Real World Graphs with Multiple Representations

•Real World Graphs Collaborative Poster

Area

•Area of Triangles & Parallelograms Discovery

•Dot Grid Area Problems

•Area of Triangles and Quadrilaterals Coloring Activity

•Area of Triangles and Composite Figures Task Cards

•Perimeter and Area Bingo

Nets & Surface Area

•3D Nets of Cubes Card Sort

•Nets and Surface Area Project

•Perseverance Lesson with 3D Figure

Statistics

•Statistics Cheat Sheets

•Space Stats Activity with Histograms and Box & Whiskers

•Box & Whiskers Real World Temperatures

Mixed Topics / Review

•End of Year Review Game

•6th Grade Math Review with Error Analysis

•6th Grade Math Collaborative Coloring Review

Card sort with nets of cubes

Rise over Run math resources are created to encourage thinking and collaboration. When students are problem solving, working together, and figuring things out, the learning sticks. By challenging students with engaging activities, we build confidence and understanding.