PSSA Grade 6 Geometry. Practice it free.

Measures area, surface area, and coordinate geometry with triangles and quadrilaterals. This Grade 6 reporting domain maps to 1 practice skill and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 6M.6.41 mapped skills
What the test measures

Geometry skills

  1. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

  2. Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles

  3. Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles

  4. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths

  5. Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate

Standards basis

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Mathematics / Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content — Pennsylvania

How the PSSA reports it

PSSA is Pennsylvania’s own standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment. Its math reporting structure is built on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards/Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content rather than a separate multi-state framework, and it closely mirrors CCSS-style grade-level domains.

Blueprint & weighting

The official PSSA page lists the Mathematics Test Design and grade-level item/scoring samplers, but the accessible source excerpt did not expose a usable per-domain percentage blueprint; no reliable item-weight table was recoverable from the available primary page text.

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Area formulas (triangle, parallelogram, trapezoid)

Grade 670 questions
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Practice playeasy

Find the area of a parallelogram with base b=2b = 2 and height h=9h = 9.

Parallelogram area =b⋅h=2⋅9=18= b \cdot h = 2 \cdot 9 = 18.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a trapezoid with bases b1=7b_1 = 7 and b2=10b_2 = 10 and height h=6h = 6.

Trapezoid area =12(b1+b2)⋅h=12(7+10)⋅6=12(17)⋅6=51= \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

Find the area of a triangle with base b=4b = 4 and height h=8h = 8.

Triangle area =12⋅b⋅h=12⋅4⋅8=16= \dfrac{1}{2} \cdot b \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2} \cdot 4 \cdot 8 = 16.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a parallelogram with base b=5b = 5 and height h=10h = 10.

Parallelogram area =b⋅h=5⋅10=50= b \cdot h = 5 \cdot 10 = 50.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a trapezoid with bases b1=6b_1 = 6 and b2=10b_2 = 10 and height h=7h = 7.

Trapezoid area =12(b1+b2)⋅h=12(6+10)⋅7=12(16)⋅7=56= \dfrac{1}{2}(b_1 + b_2) \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2}(6 + 10) \cdot 7 = \dfrac{1}{2}(16) \cdot 7 = 56.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a parallelogram with base b=4b = 4 and height h=6h = 6.

Parallelogram area =b⋅h=4⋅6=24= b \cdot h = 4 \cdot 6 = 24.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a trapezoid with bases b1=5b_1 = 5 and b2=6b_2 = 6 and height h=4h = 4.

Trapezoid area =12(b1+b2)⋅h=12(5+6)⋅4=12(11)⋅4=22= \dfrac{1}{2}(b_1 + b_2) \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2}(5 + 6) \cdot 4 = \dfrac{1}{2}(11) \cdot 4 = 22.

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a triangle with base b=8b = 8 and height h=9h = 9.

Triangle area =12⋅b⋅h=12⋅8⋅9=36= \dfrac{1}{2} \cdot b \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2} \cdot 8 \cdot 9 = 36.

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Related Common Core standards
6.G.A.1
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