6th Grade Benchmark 1

6.G.1Area of Shapes

100

Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 6 cm.

30 cm²

200

Find the area of a parallelogram with base 8 cm and height 5 cm.

40 cm²

300

Find the area of a triangle with base 15 cm and height 8 cm.

60 cm²

400

The area of a parallelogram is 120 cm².  If the base is 10cm, what is the height?

12 cm

500

Find the area of a polygon composed of a rectangle (8 cm × 4 cm) and a triangle (base 8 cm, height 6 cm).

56 cm²

6.G.4Surface Area

100

How many faces does a cube have?

6

200

Find the surface area of a cube with side length 4 cm.

96 cm³

300

Find the surface area of a rectangular prism with dimensions 3 cm × 5 cm × 2 cm.

62 cm²

400

A rectangular prism has dimensions 4 cm × 6 cm × 10 cm. Find its surface area.

248 cm²

500

A cube has side length 7 cm. Find its surface area.

294 cm²

6.NS.4LCM & GCF

100

Find the GCF of 12 and 18

6

200

Find the LCM of 4 and 10.

20

300

What’s the GCF of 24, 36, and 60?

12

400

What’s the LCM of 9 and 12?

36

500

A school schedules a field trip every 12 days and an assembly every 18 days. After how many days will both events happen on the same day?

36 days

6.EE.1Exponents

100

Evaluate 3².

9

200

Evaluate 2³.

8

300

Simplify (1/5)³

1/125

400

Simplify (10² × 2³)

800

500

Simplify (2⁴ × 3²)

144

6.EE.2Expressions

100

Write an expression for “5 more than a number n.”

n + 5

200

Evaluate 2x + 3 when x = 4.

11

300

Write an expression for “the product of 7 and a number decreased by 2.”

7n - 2

400

Evaluate 3a² – 5 when a = 3.

22

500

Write an expression for “twice the sum of a number and 8.”

2(n + 8)