IBMYP Math 6 Extended

International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) math courses promote both inquiry and application, helping students to develop problem-solving techniques that transcend the discipline and are useful in the world outside school. Placement in this accelerated course is based on demonstration of readiness after Grade 5 Mathematics. In IBMYP Math 6 Extended, students learn all the Grade 6 Mathematics content and approximately half of the Grade 7 Mathematics content.  As such, instruction moves at a more accelerated rate compared to Math 6. Through the instruction of Grade 6 Mathematics content, students will develop an understanding of integers and their operations, deepen their knowledge of positive rational numbers (including fractions, decimals, percents, and exponents), learn about the coordinate plane and congruence, develop and apply formulas for area, circumference, and perimeter, explore the data cycle with circle graphs, and build a foundation for algebraic thinking with one-step equations, inequalities, and proportional relationships. The Grade 7 Mathematics Standards are taught in connection with the Grade 6 Mathematics Standards. Students explore the relationships between quadrilaterals, extend their understanding of rational numbers to include negative numbers and scientific notation, develop proportional reasoning and apply this concept to similarity and dilations, and solve two-step equations. At the end of the year, students will take the Grade 6 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) test.