Math 1 is the course title for 6th grade math in Volusia County.  Students taking the class as gifted students have the same requirements as those not classified as gifted.

What happens in 6th grade?  Well, believe it or not, there aren't a lot of new ideas being created in the area of arithmetic.  But, there are a lot of ideas that you don't know.  For instance, very few of my students recognize prime factorization.  They often know what prime numbers are but now see it used in a new skill.  There are a lot of new mathematical ideas being created out in the academic world beyond us.  Most of it you wouldn't recognize, but maybe one day!?

In Volusia county we structure courses by Florida's Next generation Sunshine State Standards and associated benchmarks. We divide the course by Essential Questions. 

Here are some of the Essential Questions for the math 1 course: