Primary 6 Mathematics (PSLE)

P6 introduces less than any other year and demands more. Algebra, ratio and circles are the main additions. Everything else is revisited at PSLE standard, in mixed questions that do not tell you which topic they are testing. The full examinable list is below.

Number and Algebra

Four Operations

  • Solving up to 3-step word problems involving the 4 operations

Fractions and Decimals

  • Comparing fractions and decimals and rearranging them

Percentage

  • Finding percentages
  • Percentage of a quantity
  • Percentages as fractions and decimals
  • Percentage change
  • Finding percentage increase and decrease
  • Percentage discount
  • Percentage GST
  • Percentage interest
  • Percentage profit and loss
  • Percentage remainder
  • Solving word problems involving percentage

Ratio

  • Notation and interpretation of a:b and a:b:c where a, b and c are whole numbers
  • Equivalent ratios
  • Finding ratios
  • Comparing ratios
  • Comparing three quantities
  • Expressing a ratio in its simplest form
  • Dividing a quantity in a given ratio
  • Finding the missing term in a pair of equivalent ratios
  • Ratio and fraction
  • Relationship between fractions and ratio
  • Word problems involving ratio
  • Solving word problems involving ratio including changing ratios

Algebra

  • Using letters to represent numbers
  • Simplifying algebraic expressions
  • Evaluating algebraic expressions
  • Solving word problems

Measurement and Geometry

Circles

  • Radius and diameter of a circle
  • Circumference of a circle
  • Area of a circle
  • Area and circumference of circles in composite figures
  • Finding missing variables given area or perimeter
  • Problem solving: overlapping concept
  • Problem solving: cut and paste concept
  • Problem solving: area and perimeter of leaf

Area of a Triangle

  • Finding height and base of triangles

Volume of Cubes and Cuboids

  • Volume of a cube and a cuboid
  • Volume of a solid
  • Volume of a solid and liquid
  • Drawing cubes and cuboids
  • Finding one dimension of a cuboid given its volume and other dimensions
  • Finding the height of the cuboid given its volume and base area
  • Finding the area of the face of a cuboid given its volume and one dimension
  • Finding the length of one edge of a cube given its volume
  • Use of square root and cube root to find dimensions of cube
  • Word problems involving volume

Special Quadrilaterals

  • Classifying quadrilaterals: parallelograms
  • Classifying quadrilaterals: rhombuses
  • Classifying quadrilaterals: trapeziums
  • Drawing four-sided figures
  • Finding unknown angles
  • Area of triangle in composite figures

Angles

  • Properties of a figure
  • Problem solving: pattern of figures

Statistics

Average

  • Understanding average
  • Relationship between average, total value and number of data
  • Word problems involving average