The Mathematics curriculum in 6e
Beyond the 5h of French each week, mathematics lessons take up 4 hours weekly (as with modern languages). Note that the other free hours in the 6e timetable are used, among other things, to work on history-geography, as well as science & technology.
Mathematics in detail
In collège, during the 4 hours of mathematics, teachers aim to develop 6e students’ working abilities, their capacity to investigate, communicate and justify their statements. Traditionally, lessons are organised around 4 key areas:
- Data organisation and management: recognising and handling proportionality situations, introducing the presentation, use and interpretation of data in different forms…
- Numbers and calculations: consolidating the meaning of operations, developing mental arithmetic, grasping the order of magnitude of whole and decimal numbers, of a number in operation or fractional form…
- Geometry: completing knowledge of plane figures and standard solids, mastering construction techniques, recognising them within a complex configuration, carrying out simple reasoning around them…
- Quantities and measurements: completing knowledge of lengths, areas, masses and durations, working on unit conversions, consolidating the concept of angle, introducing the concept of volume…
End-of-year expectations for 6e in Mathematics
By the end of the year, a 6e student in mathematics must be able to use and represent whole numbers, simple fractions and decimal numbers, perform calculations and solve problems with them.
In quantities and measurements, they know and use the formula for the circumference of a circle, carry out two-step conversions, calculate, use and relate units of volume and capacity as well as areas, use a protractor to measure an angle and solve problems involving all these concepts.
In space and geometry, they master various ways of representing space (model, plan, diagram), recognise, name, describe, reproduce, represent and construct solids and geometric figures, and use several geometric relationships (alignment, segments, perpendicularity, parallelism, axial symmetry, proportionality).
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