Grades 6–7 Math problem set
Water Tower Height and Pressure: Unit-Rate Problems
Eight problems that turn the town water tower into unit-rate practice, converting height to pressure with the real 0.433 psi-per-foot rule operators use.
Water Math · Grade 6
Students practice grade-level mathematics on real utility quantities such as flow rates, tank volumes, and water bills, using the same formulas that appear on operator licensing exams.
78 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 6 Worksheet
Brandymoor Creek's Storm Gauge: Decimals and Rates of Rise
A grade 6 worksheet on a creek gauge read every two hours during a storm, with decimal subtraction, rates of rise and fall, and a flood-stage comparison.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Dursley Water District's Apprentice Log: Hours and Percent
A grade 6 worksheet following a water utility apprentice's training log, with percent complete, an hours-per-week unit rate, and a percent increase in pay.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Feltingham's Biosolids Load: Dividing Fractions on the Farm
A grade 6 worksheet where students divide mixed numbers and fractions to find how many acres a biosolids truckload covers and how many loads a farm needs.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Halverton's Purple Pipe: Ratio Language for Recycled Water
A 45-minute grade 6 lesson where students describe a town's recycled-water deliveries with ratio language, a ratio table, and a percent of park water.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Ivensdale Plant's Basin Log: Center, Spread, and Shape
A 45-minute grade 6 lesson using fifteen days of basin readings from a water reclamation plant to compare mean and median and describe a skewed distribution.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Ketterby Dam's Fish Ladder: Rate and Percent Problems
A grade 6 problem set on a dam's fish ladder, covering the climb height, a fish's rate per pool, the share of river flow the ladder takes, and a counting rate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Oxholt's Service Line Inventory: Ratios and Percents
A grade 6 worksheet on a town's inventory of 5,000 water service lines, with ratios in simplest form, percents by pipe material, and a replacement schedule.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Tarrowford Farm's New Well: One-Step Equations for Watering
A 50-minute grade 6 lesson in which students write and solve one-step equations for pumping minutes, gallons added, and rows watered on a berry farm.
Grade 6 Project
Vexford Street Rain Garden: A Grade 6 Design Proposal
A four-session grade 6 project where students size a rain garden with fractional depths, keep it inside a budget, and propose it to a public works committee.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Wickholt Nursery's Pond: Evaporation Rates and Percent Lost
A 45-minute grade 6 lesson in which students turn a holding pond's 1.4-inch weekly drop into gallons and find what percent of the pond evaporated.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Ardleigh School's Green Roof: Volume with Fractional Depths
A grade 6 lesson on a school's planted roof: students find the volume of a growing-medium layer with a fractional depth and compare it with a storm's runoff.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Barrowmere Ranch's Stock Tank: Decimals for a Herd's Water
A grade 6 worksheet on a ranch's watering tank: students multiply and divide decimals for a herd's daily demand, then find the percent a float-valve leak wastes.
Grade 6 Project
Clayburn Creek Report Card: A Four-Session Data Team Project
A grade 6 project where student teams turn four monitoring sites' oxygen readings into percents, medians, and a one-page report card for a fictional watershed council.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Corsley's Pumping Log: A Dot Plot of Fifteen Days
A grade 6 lesson on a small town's fifteen-day pumping log: students build a dot plot, then test how one main-break day pulls the mean away from the median.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Duncorne Hospital's Cooling Tower: Makeup Water Percents
A grade 6 worksheet on a hospital cooling tower: students use ratios, percents, and unit rates to track where 4,000 gallons of makeup water goes each day.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Halbury's Water Tower: Feet of Head and Pounds of Pressure
A grade 6 worksheet on one town's water tower: students multiply and divide decimals to turn feet of water into pounds per square inch and back again.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Jesmond School's Aquaponics Tank: Ratios and Daily Water Loss
A grade 6 problem set on a classroom aquaponics system: students write tank-to-bed ratios, find pump turnover, and track a two percent daily water loss across a week.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Kilmory Farm's Irrigation Timer: Inches per Hour on Four Zones
A grade 6 problem set on a farm's sprinkler timer: students work with inches per hour, convert depth of water to gallons, and adjust the schedule after a rainy week.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Kirkbride Plant's Backwash Water: Percent of a Day's Output
A grade 6 worksheet on filter cleaning at a small plant: students find what percent of a day's treated water washes the filters, and what recycling saves.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Pellmore's Valve Crew: Expressions for a Week of Inspections
A grade 6 lesson built on a utility valve crew's weekly count: students write and evaluate expressions with a variable, then solve one-step equations about the work.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Vayle Plant's Feed Jugs: Dividing Fractions of a Gallon
A grade 6 lesson in a treatment plant's chemical room: students divide fractions and mixed numbers to find how long a jug of solution lasts at a set feed rate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Aldermont's Treatment Plant: Turbidity Removal in Percents
A grade 6 worksheet where students track cloudiness through the fictional Aldermont plant and find the percent removed, using decimals and the 0.3 NTU limit.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Bramblewood Home Water Audit: A Percent and Leak Quiz
A grade 6 quiz mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on home water use and leaks, using percent, unit rate, and decimals.