Grade 6Mathematics
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 6 Mathematics curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1NumbersThe largest strand of the year, and the foundation under everything that follows.
Whole Numbers
14 skillsPlace value into the millions, reading and writing them, and rounding. The widest topic in the subject.
Multiplication
5 skillsMultiplying larger numbers confidently, by hand.
Division
6 skillsLong division, including what to do with what is left over.
Fractions
13 skillsAdding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing them, and telling which of two is larger without guessing. The topic most worth getting right this year.
Decimals
9 skillsPlace value after the point, and arithmetic where the point has to land exactly right.
Factors and Order of Operations
2 skillsWhat divides into what, and the order a calculation has to be done in.
Inequalities
3 skillsNot equals but greater and less. The first step towards the algebra of Grade 7.
2MeasurementMeasuring real things, and the arithmetic of ordinary life.
Length
10 skillsUnits, converting between them, and perimeter.
Area
6 skillsThe space inside a shape, and why it is measured in squares.
Volume
1 skillsThe space inside a solid.
Mass
10 skillsWeighing, converting units, and reading a scale properly.
Capacity
4 skillsHow much a container holds, and the difference between that and the space it takes up.
Time
8 skillsThe clock, the calendar, and working out how long something took.
Money
5 skillsBuying, change, profit and loss. The arithmetic a child can use the same afternoon.
3GeometryShape and line, measured rather than estimated.
Three-Dimensional Shapes
1 skillsSolids and what they are made of: faces, edges and corners.
Angles
5 skillsNaming them, measuring them with a protractor, and the rules about the ones made when lines cross.
Lines
5 skillsParallel, perpendicular and intersecting, and how to construct them.
3-D Objects
3 skillsNets and models: how a solid opens out flat, and how to build one from paper.
4Data HandlingMaking sense of a lot of numbers at once.
Interpreting Data
1 skillsReading a table or a chart somebody else drew, and getting the right answer out of it.
Bar Graphs
4 skillsDrawing one properly: the scale, the labels, and the bars in the right place.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 6 Mathematics curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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