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Getting ready for 6th grade math

Find a useful starting point before a new school year. Answer twelve questions, review the reasoning, and choose a manageable practice routine.

What this check covers

  • Finding the volume of composite figures
  • Writing and evaluating numerical expressions
  • Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
  • Decimal arithmetic
  • Fraction multiplication
  • Coordinate pairs

Allow 15–25 minutes with paper for working. Use “Not sure yet” freely. Try without a calculator unless your normal learning support requires one. These are selected prerequisites, not the entire grade curriculum. High-school course order varies; our grade 11 check emphasizes Algebra 2 foundations and grade 12 emphasizes precalculus/calculus foundations.

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6th Grade entry check

12 questions · No time limit

Choose an answer or enter it as shown. You can include units. Select “Not sure yet” to mark a skill for practice. Results stay on this page unless you download them.

1 Two nonoverlapping prisms measure 4 × 3 × 2 cm and 2 × 3 × 5 cm. Find their total volume.
2 A 6 × 5 × 4 cm block has a 2 × 5 × 1 cm notch removed. Find the remaining volume.
3 Evaluate 8 + 2 × 5.
4 Write and evaluate “four times the difference of nine and two.”
5 Find 1/2 + 1/3.
6 Find 7/8 − 1/4.
7 Find 1.2 + 0.35.
8 Find 3.5 − 1.25.
9 Find 2/3 × 3/4.
10 Find 1/2 of 10.
11 In (3, 5), which number is the x-coordinate?
12 In (2, 7), which number is the y-coordinate?