Grade 6 is the bridge year — ratios, bigger ideas in science, and the expectations that set up intermediate school. Here is the year as BC schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
British Columbia math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Place value and operations from thousandths to billions, order of operations with whole numbers using brackets (no exponents), and factors and multiples including greatest common factor and least common multiple.
Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.
Improper fractions and mixed numbers, an introduction to ratios (part-to-part and part-to-whole), and whole-number percents with percentage discounts.
Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.
Multiplying and dividing decimals using base-ten models and flexible strategies.
Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.
Increasing and decreasing patterns using expressions, tables, and graphs as functional relationships, and one-step equations with whole-number coefficients and solutions.
Measuring and classifying angles (straight, acute, right, obtuse, reflex) and classifying triangles by sides and angles (scalene, isosceles, equilateral; right, acute, obtuse).
The perimeter of complex shapes, the area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids, and volume and capacity.
Combinations of transformations in the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane, line graphs, single-outcome probability (theoretical and experimental), and simple budgeting and consumer math.
In a class of 24 students, the ratio of girls to boys is 1:2. How many girls are in the class?
The basic structures and functions of the excretory, reproductive, hormonal, and nervous body systems.
Heterogeneous mixtures such as suspensions, emulsions, and colloids, and how mixtures are separated using differences in component properties like density and particle size.
Newton's three laws of motion, the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces in daily physical activities, and the force of gravity.
The overall scale, structure, and age of the universe, and the position, motion, and components of our solar system within our galaxy.
The Sun looks much bigger than every other star. Why?
The urbanization and migration of people, including land use, access to water, pollution and waste management, population density, and transportation.
An age-appropriate understanding of global inequality — that people around the world have very different access to wealth, resources, and opportunity, including minority and Indigenous communities — and how fairness and cooperation can help; focus on understanding, empathy, and positive responses, not on distressing detail.
Different systems of government and the roles of individuals, governmental organizations, and NGOs, including the United Nations, international aid groups, and groups representing indigenous peoples.
How economies and trade connect the world — resources, imports and exports, and trade agreements — and how economic decisions can affect communities, including Indigenous peoples; told at a general level, with respect for affected communities and their perspectives, focused on understanding.
International co-operation and responses to global issues, regional and international conflict, and how media technologies and coverage shape understanding of current events.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (BC's curriculum and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.