Horizons Math 6
These 160 colorful lessons cover square roots, advanced geometry, rounding, graphing, money transactions, and personal finance skills.
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By sixth grade, math brings together skills from earlier years and applies them across longer, mixed problem sets. Horizons 6th Grade Math is a print-based, teacher-led math curriculum that gives your child daily practice with that kind of combined, multi-step thinking.
The full course runs 160 lessons across two student workbooks plus a teacher's guide, covering square roots, order of operations, scientific notation, integers and operations on integers, decimal division, percentages (including discounts and sales tax), ratios and cross products, fractions (multiplying, dividing, reciprocals), constructions with compass and protractor, four-quadrant graphing, mean/median/mode, and practical applications like writing checks, budgeting, banking, and understanding interest.
Horizons uses a spiral curriculum design, which means concepts are introduced briefly, then revisited again and again across the year with a little more depth each time. This contrasts with mastery-based programs, which work through one concept thoroughly before moving to the next. Spiral curricula are usually a better fit for kids who get bored doing the same kind of problem repeatedly, and for parents who'd rather their child see a concept multiple times across the year than spend a whole unit on it once.
The teacher's guide walks you through each day's lesson, with daily lesson plans, answer keys, teaching tips, learning objectives, and 40 supplemental worksheets for concepts your child needs more time with. A manipulative schedule at the front of the guide lists which manipulatives appear in which lessons. The manipulatives themselves aren't included in the kit, and many families will consider them optional.
Horizons 6th Grade Math includes occasional Christian references in its lessons, as do other levels beginning in grade 4. The K-3 levels of the series are nonreligious.
Horizons 6th Grade Math is a good fit for a sixth grader who's ready for a full math curriculum, and for a parent who wants a fully scripted lesson plan rather than building their own. The colorful pages and spiral approach make it a particularly good fit for kids who lose interest with extended drilling on one concept.
See some sample pages from this series to figure out the best fit for your child.
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Lesson plans are already formatted in your teacher’s guide for each day and what should be taught and worked on.
- November 20, 2019
Horizon Math Works Great for us
Lauri T.
My girls really enjoyed using the Horizon Math Curriculum. The workbook style of presenting math concepts then having problems to reinforce those concepts in the same book works really well for them.
- October 8, 2014
Very good. Easy to follow.
Angela Y.
Very good. Easy to follow. Good review built in
- June 14, 2013
We love it!
vangie
My son did Horizon math for 6 years and it prepared him well to move on to Teaching Textbooks with no problems. My daughter has completed Grade 5 and my third child has completed Grade 2. I have been very happy with this math curriculum. I did not use the teachers manual until Grade 6 when I needed it!
- January 14, 2013
Not for us
Jess
This approach did not work for my son, it was random and it did not give adequate instruction. He was confused and frustrated from jumping from (for example)fractions to circumfrence of a circle. He does better learning in sequence and building onto skills. We had to find a new curriculum.
