Grade 6 Pacing Guide Overview 2015-2016
The Pacing Guide Overview is a quick look at the school year. It provides suggested time frames for each unit
in Math Expressions across the 2015-2016 calendar year. Please refer to the Pacing Guides for each individual
instructional block for detailed information on the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
SLCSD Instructional Blocks and Math Expressions Units and Lessons
Instructional Block 1: MX Unit 1 and 2
MX Unit 1: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions
 Lessons 1 – 5: Multiplication and Rates
 Lessons 6 – 7: Special Rate Situations and Graphing
 Lessons 8 – 11: Solve Problems with Ratio and Proportion
 Lessons 12 -15: Identify, Solve, and Write Proportion Situations
 Unit 1 Review and Test
General Education Pacing
August 25 – October 14
August 25 – September 24
15 Lessons: 22 Days
Lessons 1, 3, 6, and 9 may take 2 days
*Addition and Subtraction of Fractions should be spiraled daily
MX Unit 2: Area of Polygons
 Lessons 1 – 5: Derive Area Formulas and Solve Problems:
Parallelograms and Triangles
 Lessons 6 – 10: Derive Area Formulas and Solve Problems:
Trapezoids and Other Polygons
 Unit 2 Review and Test
Lessons 6 may take 2 days
Instructional Block 2: MX Unit 3 and 4
September 28 – October 14
10 Lessons: 13 Days
Interim 1: October 14
October 20 – December 9
MX Unit 3: Operations with Whole Numbers, Fractions, and Decimals
 Lessons 1 – 5: Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers and Decimals
 Lessons 6 – 9: Omit (Addition and Subtraction of Fractions) Spiral Daily
Engage NY Math Module 2, Topic B
 Lessons 9 – 11: Multi-Digit Decimal Operations – Adding, Subtracting, and
Multiplying
MX Unit 3 cont: Operations with Whole Numbers, Fractions, and Decimals
 Lessons 10 – 12: Multiplying Fractions and Dividing with Fractions and
Whole Numbers
 Lessons 13 – 18: Dividing a Fraction by a Fraction
 Unit 3 Review and Test
October 20 – November 18
17 Lessons: 22 Days
Lessons 5 and 12 may take 2 days
MX Unit 4: Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids
 Lessons 1 – 3: Nets and Surface Area of Prisms
 Lessons 4 – 6: Nets and Surface Area of Pyramids
 Unit 4 Review and Test
Lessons 1 and 6 may take 2 days
November 19 – December 9
6 Lessons: 12 Days
Interim 2: December 9
Grade 6 Pacing Guide Overview 2015-2016
Instructional Block 3: MX Unit 5 and 6
December 10 – February 10
MX Unit 5: Expressions and Equations
 Lessons 1 – 5: Writing, Interpreting, and Analyzing Expressions
 Lessons 6 – 9: Equivalent Expressions
 Lessons 10 – 13: Representing and Describing Quantitative Relationships
 Lessons 14 – 18: Solving Equations and Inequalities
 Unit 5 Review and Test
December 10 – January 27
18 Lessons: 24 Days
Lessons 5, 6, 7, and 14 may take 2 days
MX Unit 6: Volume of a Rectangular Prism
 Lessons 1 – 6: Volume Formulas for Rectangular Prisms
 Unit 6 Review and Test
Instructional Block 4: MX Unit 7, 8, and 9
MX Unit 7: Ratios and Rates with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
 Lessons 1 – 4: Ratios, Fractions, Unit Rates, and Cross-Multiplying
 Lessons 5 – 7: Ratios with Tape Diagrams and Equations
 Lessons 8 – 11: Percent
 Lessons 12 – 14: Relate Different Measurement Units
 Unit 7 Review and Test
January 28 – February 10
6 Lessons: 10 Days
Interim 3: February 10
February 11 – April 29
February 11 – March 9
14 Lessons: 18 Days
Lessons 1, 2, 5, and 6 may take 2 days
MX Unit 8: Anaslyzing Statistics
 Lessons 1 – 2: Displaying Data
 Lessons 3 – 6: Summerizing Data: The Mean, the Median
 Lessons 7 – 12: Describing Variability in Data
 Unit 8 Review and Test
March 10 – April 8
12 Lessons: 17 days
Lessons 6, 8, 9, 11, and 12 may take 2 days
MX Unit 9: Rational Numbers and the Coordinate Plane
 Lessons 1 – 4: Discuss, Compare, and Graph Integers
 Lessons 5 – 8: Discuss, Compare, and Graph Rational Numbers
 Unit 9 Review and Test
Lessons 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 may take 2 days
SAGE Assessment
April 11 – April 29
8 lessons: 15 days
Interim 4: April 29
Date: TBD
Review and SAGE
Instructional Block 5: engageny Grade 6 Math Module 5
engageny Grade 6 Math Module 1: Ratios and Unit Rates
 Topic B: Lessons 9 – 15: Collections of Equivalent Ratios
 Topic C: Lessons 16 – 23: Unit Rates
 Topic D: Lessons 24 – 29: Percent
May 2 – June 3
May 2 – June 3
Grade 6 Pacing Guide Overview 2015-2016
Salt Lake City School District Recommended Curriculum Order for ST Math
It is highly recommended that all 6th grade students be put in the 6th MSS Version of ST Math.