Grade 6 Lesson plan
Northgate Plant Shift Log: A Gallons-Per-Hour Rate Lesson
A 50-minute grade 6 lesson where students read a fictional treatment plant's shift log and use unit rate and percent to describe how much water it treats.
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.
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Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Okafor Household Water Quiz: Percent and Unit Rates
A grade 6 math quiz on a fictional family's water use, mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on percent and unit-rate reasoning.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Ordley Water Bills: Rates, Totals, and Percent Increase
A grade 6 math set on a fictional utility's water bills, where students find monthly charges, percent increases, and usage from a base plus per-unit rate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Ottershaw's Hydrant Flushing Log: Decimals and Unit Rates
A grade 6 worksheet on a spring hydrant flushing route, where students divide decimals to find gallons per minute and compare four hydrants' rates.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Pikewell Farm's Shallow Well: Dividing Fractions
A grade 6 problem set where students divide fractions and mixed numbers to plan watering from a shallow farm well that refills three quarters of a foot per hour.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Pinnick Orchard's Drip Lines: Ratio Tables and Percent
A grade 6 worksheet where students build ratio tables for an orchard's sprinkler and drip watering, then find the percent of water the drip lines save.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Prescott Impervious-Surface Percent Grid Game
A grade 6 team game where students cover a 100-square grid to model a fictional block's paved area, reading each square as one percent to compare stormwater runoff.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Ravenswood Booster Pump: A Grade 6 Unit-Rate Lesson
A 50-minute grade 6 math lesson using a fictional booster pump's steady rate to build a rate table and solve fill-time and combined-rate problems.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Sedgely's PFAS Results: Modeling Parts per Trillion
A 50-minute grade 6 math lesson building a thousand-by-thousand ratio ladder so students can compare four wells' PFAS results to the federal limit.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Selby Lake Nitrogen and Phosphorus Ratio Worksheet
A grade 6 worksheet using ratio language, equivalent ratios, and percent to study how nitrogen and phosphorus act as both nutrients and pollution in a lake.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Tern Island Desalination Skid: Recovery and Rejection
A grade 6 math problem set on a fictional seawater plant, where students find recovery percent, salt rejection percent, and an energy unit rate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Thornbury's Aging Water Mains: Break Rates and Percent
A grade 6 worksheet where students turn water-main break and pipe-replacement data for the fictional town of Thornbury into unit rates, ratios, and percents.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Vennock Dam's Two Outlets: Unit Rates and Flow Units
A 45-minute grade 6 math lesson comparing two dam outlets by gallons per minute, then converting between gallons per minute and cubic feet per second.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Water-Career Pay and Openings: A Grade 6 Percent Lesson
A 45-minute grade 6 math lesson using real operator pay and job-opening data to practice percent and unit rates while presenting every water-career path as valid.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Westhaven Lead Rule Change: Percents and the New Limit
A grade 6 math worksheet where students use the lead action level dropping from 15 to 10 ppb to practice percent change, percent of a limit, and a replacement rate.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Wexley's Water Plant: Cleaning Wastewater in Percents
A grade 6 problem set on the fictional Wexley plant, finding what percent of BOD and solids are removed from wastewater and a percent increase in daily flow.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Willow Bend Groundwater Quiz: Drawdown, Output, Percent
A 20-point grade 6 quiz on the fictional Willow Bend aquifer, mixing multiple-choice and computation on drawdown, well output, porosity, and percent of an aquifer used.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Wrenfield Water Bills: Cost per Gallon and Fixed Charges
A grade 6 problem set on a fictional town's water rates: students find the cost per gallon, compare two bills, and see how a fixed service charge adds up.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Wrenholt Creek Gauge Cards: A Tributary Ratio Rotation
A grade 6 station rotation in which teams act as stream gauges on four brooks and build the ratio and percent each contributes to the main stem.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Birchgate Elementary's Rain Barrel: Volume with Fractional Dimensions
A grade 6 problem set finding a fictional school's rain-barrel box volume with fractional foot dimensions, converting to gallons, and comparing it to roof runoff.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
The Bucket Brigade Challenge: Calculating a Relay's Pumping Rate
A grade 6 relay activity where teams move cups of water between buckets, then calculate and convert their team's unit rate to gallons per minute.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Fernbrook's Fountain Filter: Ratios in a Reverse-Osmosis System
A grade 6 lesson using ratio language and percent to describe how a fictional school's reverse-osmosis filter splits feed water into drinking and reject water.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Foxglove Meadows Lab Results: Percent of a Federal Standard
A grade 6 worksheet pairing fictional lead and chlorine lab readings with the real federal action level and disinfectant limit to practice percent-of-a-quantity problems.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Nitrate Levels in Hazel Run: Decimal Operations and Percent Change
A grade 6 worksheet using decimal nitrate readings from a fictional creek to practice decimal operations, percent increase, and percent-of comparisons.