DeSSA Grade 6 Concepts and Procedures Practice

DeSSA Grade 6 Concepts and Procedures. Practice it free.

Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency. Content is drawn from the Grade 6 clusters listed as targets below, with a much greater proportion from clusters the blueprint designates as priority (major) clusters. This Grade 6 reporting domain maps to 22 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 6Claim 122 mapped skills

Concepts and Procedures skills

Target A: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems

Target B: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions

Target C: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples

Target D: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers

Target E: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions

Target F: Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities

Target G: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables

Target H: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

Target I: Develop understanding of statistical variability

Target J: Summarize and describe distributions

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) — Delaware

How the DeSSA reports it

DeSSA mathematics is Delaware's administration of the actual Smarter Balanced summative assessment (Delaware is a Smarter Balanced member state): per the Delaware DOE, the test provider for grades 3-8 is the Smarter Balanced consortium, administered each spring via the DeSSA portal. The math test is organized into four claims with published assessment targets (Smarter Balanced Mathematics Content Specifications). Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) publishes per-grade assessment targets, each a verbatim CCSS-M cluster heading (e.g. grade 3 Target A is cluster 3.OA.A); Claims 2-4 are cross-cutting process claims whose targets are constant across grades and draw on the same grade-level content. On score reports, Claims 2 and 4 are combined into a single reporting category, so three claim scores accompany the overall math score. Delaware administers the Smarter Balanced math summative in grades 3-8 only; the high-school accountability test is the School Day SAT (grade 11, since 2011), which sits outside the Smarter Balanced blueprint and is covered by the separate SAT coverage map, so this file carries no High School band. (DeSSA stands for Delaware System of Student Assessments, per the DOE's official DeSSA calendar.)

Blueprint & weighting

Content Specifications (Reporting Categories section): the total mathematics score is a weighted composite of the four claims — Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) contributes roughly 50%, Claim 3 (Communicating Reasoning) roughly 25%, and combined Claims 2 and 4 (Problem Solving / Modeling and Data Analysis) about 25%. The summative blueprint (as of 2018-19) publishes item counts per test event rather than percentages: Claim 1 is 17-20 items in grades 3-5 and 16-20 in grades 6-8; the Claim 2/4 and Claim 3 reporting categories are 8-10 items each, totaling 18-20 across the two.

Official sources

Delaware Department of Education – Delaware Mathematics Assessments (grades 3-8 test provider is the Smarter Balanced consortium; high school uses the School Day SAT)
Delaware System of Student Assessments (DeSSA): 2025-2026 Calendar (Delaware DOE)
Smarter Balanced – Delaware member page

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Practice playeasy

Find the area of a trapezoid with bases $b_1 = 7$ and $b_2 = 10$ and height $h = 6$ .

Trapezoid area $= \dfrac{1}{2}(b_1 + b_2) \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2}(7 + 10) \cdot 6 = \dfrac{1}{2}(17) \cdot 6 = 51$ .

Practice playeasy

What is $28.7 \div 7$ ?

Result: $4.1$ .

Practice playeasy

What is $\dfrac{3}{4} \div \dfrac{2}{3}$ ?

Multiply by the reciprocal: $\dfrac{3}{4} \times \dfrac{3}{2} = \dfrac{9}{8} = \dfrac{9}{8}$ .

Practice playeasy

What is $|5 - 4|$ ?

First compute the difference: $5 - 4 = 1$ . Then take the absolute value: $|1| = 1$ .

Practice playeasy

A club answered the statistical question "How many hours did you practice this week?" The answers were $4, 7, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13$ . How many people were interviewed?

Each answer in the list is one person. Count every value, including repeats: there are $7$ answers, so $7$ people were interviewed.

Practice playeasy

Mia writes three survey questions:

• How many minutes do students in my class spend on homework?
• How many minutes did I spend on homework last night?
• How tall are the players on my team?

How many of the three are statistical questions?

A statistical question anticipates variability. Asking how many minutes students spend on homework, and how tall the players are, both ask about a group, so the answers can differ. Asking how many minutes I spent last night asks about one person on one night, so it has one answer. That makes $2$ statistical questions.

Practice playeasy

Which value is greatest on the real number line?

Compare positions: $\dfrac{9}{5} = 1.8$ , $-\dfrac{2}{3} \approx -0.67$ , $\dfrac{5}{8} = 0.625$ , and $-\dfrac{7}{12} \approx -0.58$ . The greatest is $\dfrac{9}{5}$ .

Practice playmedium

A patient receives $2{,}500$ milliliters of IV fluid. How many liters is that? ( $1$ liter $= 1{,}000$ milliliters)

Use a conversion factor with liters in the numerator so milliliters cancel: $2{,}500 \text{ mL} \times \dfrac{1 \text{ L}}{1{,}000 \text{ mL}} = 2.5 \text{ L}$ .

DeSSA Grade 6 Concepts and Procedures. Practice it free.

Concepts and Procedures skills

Target A: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems

Target B: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions

Target C: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples

Target D: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers

Target E: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions

Target F: Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities

Target G: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables

Target H: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

Target I: Develop understanding of statistical variability

Target J: Summarize and describe distributions

Topics mapped to this domain

Area formulas (triangle, parallelogram, trapezoid)

Decimal operations

Multiplying and dividing fractions

Absolute value

Describing a Data Distribution

Identifying Statistical Questions

Rational number line locations (ACT)

Custom unit conversions

Fraction-decimal-percent conversion

Percent of a quantity

Two-step unit conversions

Central Measures from Tally Charts (ACT)

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