I Can Statements for Grade 6
The following document was developed by the North Dakota educators to provide assistance to
teachers implementing the North Dakota Common Core Standards. Each standard has been broken up
into specific I Can Statements, which detail the specific knowledge and skills that students should
master. The adjacent blank columns provide space for teachers to use in a variety of ways, including
planning for each quarter of the school year or tracking individual student mastery on each standard.
Domain: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Cluster: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio
reasoning to solve problems
6.RP.1 Understand the concept of a
ratio and use ratio language to
describe a ratio relationship
between two quantities.
I Can:
 Recognize a ratio in various
forms
 Explain what a ratio is in
their own words

 Describe a ratio relationship
6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a I Can:
unit rate a/b associated with a ratio
 Express unit rate as a ratio
a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate
of part-to-one
language in the context of a ratio
 Use rate language to
relationship.
describe ratio relationship
6.RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by
reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or
equations.
I Can:
a. Make tables of equivalent ratios
relating quantities with whole-number
 Recognize a ratio in various
measurements, find missing values in
forms
the tables, and plot the pairs of values
 Explain what a ratio is in
on the coordinate plane. Use tables to
their own words
compare ratios.
 Describe a ratio relationship
b. Solve unit rate problems
including those involving unit pricing
and constant speed.
c. Find a percent of a quantity as a
rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity
means 30/100 times the quantity);
solve problems involving finding the
whole, given a part and the percent.
d. Use ratio reasoning to convert
measurement units; manipulate and
transform units appropriately when
multiplying or dividing quantities.
Draft – NDCT October 2011
I Can:
 Solve unit pricing problems
 Solve constant speed
problems
 Use concepts of unit rate to
solve problems
I Can:
 Find a percent of a quantity
as a rate per 100
 Solve percent problems
involving find the whole
I Can:
 Use ratio reasoning to
convert measurement units
 Manipulate and transform
units appropriately when
multiplying or dividing
quantities
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Domain: The Number System
Cluster: Apply and extend previous understanding of
multiplication and division to divide fractions by
fractions
6.NS.1 Interpret and compute
quotients of fractions, and solve
word problems involving division of
fractions by fractions, e.g., by using
visual fraction models and
equations to represent the problem.
6.NS.2 Fluently divide multi-digit
numbers using the standard
algorithm.
6.NS.3 Fluently add, subtract,
multiply, and divide multi-digit
decimals using the standard
algorithm for each operation.
6.NS.4 Find the greatest common
factor of two whole numbers less
than or equal to 100 and the least
common multiple of two whole
numbers less than or equal to 12.
Use the distributive property to
express a sum of two whole
numbers 1–100 with a common
factor as a multiple of a sum of two
whole numbers with no common
factor.
Draft – NDCT October 2011
I Can:
 Interpret quotients of
fractions
 Compute quotients of
fractions
 Solve word problems
involving division of
fractions by fractions
I Can:
 Divide multi-digit numbers
using the standard
algorithm
I Can:
 Add multi-digit decimals
using the standards
algorithm
 Subtract multi-digit decimals
using the standards
algorithm
 Multiply multi-digit decimals
using the standards
algorithm
 Divide multi-digit decimals
using the standards
algorithm
I Can:
 Find the greatest common
factor (GCF) of two whole
numbers less than or equal
to 100
 Find the least common
multiple (LCM) of two whole
numbers less than or equal
to 12

Use the definitions of GCF
and LCM along with the
distributive property to
express the sum of two
whole numbers
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