Submit a Question or Comment    I take responsibility for
myself. Grade 6 prepares students for the independence and
challenge of junior high school. Students take eight required
subjects: Art, English Language Arts, Health and Life Skills,
Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Science and Social
Studies. Some schools may offer additional optional subjects.
English Language Arts (REQUIRED SUBJECT)  How can I understand
the people around me? How will they understand me? Grade 6
students move from understanding and communicating to drawing
conclusions about things and trying to convince others. They
learn to think for themselves, revise their ideas and dig to
find answers to questions that challenge them.   Operations with
numbers. Your child will convert between improper fractions and
mixed numbers, learn about and use integers, and understand the
meaning of ratio and percent. They will multiply and divide
decimal numbers, and perform operations with whole numbers using
order of operations. Your child will