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What Grade 6 covers in Ontario — and how to practise it at home

Grade 6 is the bridge year — ratios, bigger ideas in science, and the expectations that set up intermediate school. Here is the year as Ontario 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.

7 unitsMath
4 unitsScience
2 unitsSocial Studies
43 weeksEnglish & French

Math — the 2020 Ontario math curriculum, in teaching order

Ontario 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.

1

Numbers & Integers

Weeks 1–6 · September–October

Whole numbers to millions; an introduction to integers and the number line.

2

Fractions, Decimals, Percents & Ratios

Weeks 7–12 · October–November

Operations with fractions and decimals; percents, ratios and rates.

Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.

3

Operations

Weeks 13–19 · November–January

Multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers and decimals; order of operations.

Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.

4

Patterns & Algebra

Weeks 20–26 · January–February

Patterns and relationships; algebraic expressions, equations and inequalities.

5

Geometry & Surface Area

Weeks 27–32 · March–April

Angle properties; properties of polygons; surface area and nets of 3D figures.

6

Measurement & Data

Weeks 33–38 · April–May

Metric conversions; area and surface area; data, mean/median/mode, and probability.

7

Financial Literacy

Weeks 39–43 · May–June

Budgeting, simple interest concepts, and comparing financial choices.

Try one — a real Grade 6 question

Math · Ratios

In a class of 24 students, the ratio of girls to boys is 1:2. How many girls are in the class?

A typical first answer
12
Homework Hub's feedback
A 1:2 ratio doesn't mean half. It means for every 1 girl there are 2 boys — so the class splits into 1 + 2 = 3 equal parts. What's one part of 24?
Next try
8
Exactly — 24 ÷ 3 parts = 8 per part, and girls are 1 part: 8 girls (and 16 boys). Parts first, then multiply. ⚖️

Science across the year

1

Biodiversity

Weeks 1–11 · September–November

Biodiversity, its contributions to the stability of natural systems, and its benefits to humans.

2

Electrical Phenomena, Energy, and Devices

Weeks 12–22 · November–January

The principles of electrical energy and its transformation into and from other forms of energy.

3

Flight

Weeks 23–32 · February–April

The ways in which properties of air can be applied to the principles of flight and flying machines.

4

Space

Weeks 33–43 · April–June

The solar system, the phenomena that result from the movement of different bodies within it, and the technologies used in space exploration.

Science · Space

The Sun looks much bigger than every other star. Why?

A typical first answer
Because it's the biggest star in the universe.
Homework Hub's feedback
It certainly looks that way! But the Sun is actually a medium-sized star. Think about a streetlight beside you versus one ten blocks away…
Next try
Because it's much, much closer to us than other stars.
Exactly — distance, not size. The next-closest star is about 270,000 times farther away. ☀️

Social Studies

1

Communities in Canada, Past and Present

Weeks 1–22 · September–January

Communities in Canada past and present — diversity, immigration, and the heritage of different groups.

2

Canada’s Interactions with the Global Community

Weeks 23–43 · February–June

Canada's interactions with the global community, including trade, aid, and global issues.

English & French — skills that build weekly, not units

How language works in Grade 6

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.

Practice that follows this exact sequence

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This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the 2020 Ontario math 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.