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    • ▾6th grade
      • ▸Ratios, rates, and percentages
        • •Percentages
        • •Intro to ratios
        • •Unit rates
        • ▸Equivalent ratios
          • •Simplifying ratios
          • •Equivalent ratios (mathematical problems)
          • •Equivalent ratios (word problems)
      • ▸Arithmetic operations
        • •Long division
        • •Decimal arithmetic
        • •Divide fractions
        • •Raising numbers to whole number powers
        • •Mentally raising small numbers to small powers
        • •Powers of 10
        • •Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
        • •Tower of Hanoi
        • •Counting in bases 5 and 2
        • •More on binary
        • •Remainders of large powers
      • ▸Negative numbers
        • •Intro to negative numbers
        • •Absolute value of rational numbers
        • •Plotting points in all four quadrants
      • ▸Factors and multiples
        • •Prime factorization
        • •Common factors
        • •GCD and LCM by making lists
        • •GCD and LCM by prime factorization
        • •GCD and LCM word problems
        • •Properties of the GCD and LCM
        • •Water pouring puzzles
        • •Factor with the distributive property (no variables)
        • •Relatively prime
      • ▸Variables and expressions
        • •Intro to variables
        • •Measurement with an unknown unit of length
        • •Convert phrases to algebraic expressions
        • •Identify parts of expressions
        • •Distributive property with variables
        • •Determining equivalence of algebraic expressions
      • ▸Equations and inequalities introduction
        • •Testing solutions to equations and inequalities
        • •Solving one-step equations
        • •Modeling one-variable inequalities
        • •Dependent and independent variables
      • ▾Geometry
        • •Volume of right rectangular prisms with fractional lengths
        • •Area
        • •Number of diagonals in a convex polygon
        • •Counting vertices, edges, and faces
        • •Nets and surface area
        • •Surface area of rectangular prisms
        • •Coordinate plane
        • •Menseki Meiro puzzles
      • ▸Data and statistics
        • •Identifying statistical questions
        • •Plotting data
        • •Basic statistics
        • •Combining means
        • •Analyzing distributions
     › 6th grade › Geometry

    Counting vertices, edges, and faces

    Students will learn how to count vertices, edges, and faces.

    This topic is not covered by the Common Core.

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    Twisted Homes (rotational symmetry, patterns)
    by MathPickle

    Lessons and practice problems