NCERT Syllabus for Class 6 Maths 2020-21

Unit-1 Number System

1. Knowing our Numbers

2. Playing with Numbers

3. Whole numbers

4. Negative Numbers and Integers

5. Fractions

Unit-2 Algebra

1. Introduction to Algebra

• Introduction to variable

• Introduction to unknowns through examples with simple contexts.

2. Ratio and Proportion

• Concept of ratio

• Unitary method

• Proportion as equality of two ratios

• Word problems

Unit-3 Geometry

1. Basic geometrical ideas

• Introduction to geometry

• Open and closed figures

• Curvilinear and linear boundaries

• Line, line segment, ray.

• Interior and exterior of closed figures

• Angle

• Triangle

• Quadrilateral

• Circle

2. Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)

• Measure of Line segment

• Measure of angles

• Pair of lines – Intersecting and perpendicular lines, Parallel lines

• Types of angles- right, acute, reflex, zero, obtuse, straight and complete angle

• Classification of triangles

• Types of quadrilaterals

• Simple polygons

• Identification of 3-D shapes: cylinder, cubes, prism, pyramid, cuboids, cone, sphere

• Elements of 3-D figures

• Nets for cube, cuboids, cylinders, cones and tetrahedrons.

3. Symmetry: (reflection)

4. Constructions (using straight edge scale, protractor, compasses)

• Drawing of a line segment

• Construction of circle

• Perpendicular bisector

• Construction of angles (using a protractor)

• Angle 60°, 120° (Using compasses)

• Angle bisector (using compasses)

• Angle equal to a given angle (using a compass)

Unit-4 Mensuration

1. Concept of Perimeter and Introduction to Area

• Introduction to perimeter

• General understanding of perimeter

• Shapes of different kinds with the same perimeter

• Concept of area

• Area of a rectangle and a square.

• Perimeter of a rectangle

Unit-5 Data Handling

• What is data?

• Collection and organisation of data

• Pictograph

• Making bar graphs.