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6th grade math word problems

A free printable sheet of 8 Grade 6 word problems, with a hint for a grown-up under each one and an answer key worked out by Kizupi’s math engine. Press New sheet for another.

By The Kizupi team · Updated October 27, 2026

Grade 6 word problems

Name: ____________________

  1. A ribbon is 2.1 meters long. It is cut into pieces that are each 0.1 meters long. How many pieces are there?

    Hint for a grown-up: How many pieces of 0.1 meters fit in 1 meter?

  2. Priya packs 5 shirts, 4 pairs of pants and 3 hats for the island trip. How many different outfits of one shirt, one pair of pants and one hat can Priya make?

    Hint for a grown-up: For one shirt, how many shirt-and-pants pairs are there?

  3. Hana has 10 dollars and saves 12 dollars every week. After how many whole weeks will Hana have more than 103 dollars?

    Hint for a grown-up: Can we write an inequality with w for the number of weeks?

  4. The rover packs 6 sample boxes. Each box holds 2 red rocks and 3 gray rocks. Kizupi writes the total as 6(2 + 3). How many rocks are in the boxes in all?

    Hint for a grown-up: How many red rocks are there in all? How many gray rocks?

  5. A pyramid sculpture at the skate park has a square base 6 m on each side. Each of its four triangle faces has a base of 6 m and a height of 4 m. How many square meters of paint cover all five faces, base too?

    Hint for a grown-up: What is the area of one triangle face?

  6. Kizupi’s rover does a magic trick. Think of any number. Add 12. Multiply by 6. Take away 30. Divide by 6. Take away the number you started with. What number does the rover always get?

    Hint for a grown-up: Call the starting number x. What do you have after adding 12?

  7. Kizupi’s rover starts 21 meters from the base and drives away. After t minutes, it is 3t + 21 meters from the base. How far from the base is it after 6 minutes?

    Hint for a grown-up: What does 3t mean: 3 plus t, or 3 times t?

  8. Juice boxes for the trip come in two packs. A pack of 3 costs $1.41. A pack of 8 costs $3.04. One box costs less in one of the packs. How many cents less?

    Hint for a grown-up: What does one juice box cost in each pack?

From kizupi.com/tools · Grade 6, sheet 2032

What 6th grade math is about

The Common Core math standards say Grade 6 time should go to these areas [1]:

  • Ratios and rates
  • Dividing fractions, and negative numbers
  • Writing and using expressions and equations
  • Statistical thinking

Word problems are where those skills meet a story. Being able to compute is not the same as knowing which computation a story needs, which is why each problem here comes with a question to ask, not the answer.

The 53 skills on these sheets

Each sheet draws 8 problems from 83 Grade 6 word problems in Kizupi’s published lessons, a different skill for each where it can. Only problems that work on paper are used: nothing that needs a picture to count or a clock to read.

Ratios and proportions · Rational number operations · Expressions · Inequalities · Star puzzles · Surface area and volume · Mean · Squares and square roots · Median, mode and range · Systems of two equations · Counting principles · Ratio tables · Unit rates · Best buy · Converting units with ratios · Speed, distance and time · Percent of a number · Finding the whole · Percent increase and decrease · Mixtures · Dividing fractions · Decimal operations · GCF and LCM problems · Integers on a number line · Opposites · Comparing integers · Absolute value · Evaluating expressions · Combining like terms · The distributive property · Equivalent expressions · Tables of two variables · Area of triangles · Area of trapezoids · Area of composite shapes · Volume with fraction edges · Nets and surface area · Circumference · Area of circles · Mean as a balance point · Finding a missing value · Mean absolute deviation · Quartiles and box plots · Frequency tables · Histograms · Expected outcomes · Adding a sequence · Divisibility and digits · Clock and calendar problems · Combinations · Overlapping sets · Logic and truth-tellers · Rates and work together

Questions parents ask

What kind of word problems do 6th graders do?

The Common Core centers Grade 6 on ratios and rates; dividing fractions, and negative numbers; writing and using expressions and equations; statistical thinking. The sheets here mix 53 skills from that year.

Is the 6th grade worksheet free?

Yes. No account and no email. Print as many sheets as you like.

Are the answers right?

Every answer is computed with exact arithmetic by the same engine that checks children’s answers in Kizupi, not typed in by hand.

My child finds 6th grade word problems hard. What helps?

Read the problem aloud together and ask what the story is about before any numbers. Use the hint under each problem, then ask “how do you know?” If it is still hard, try a Grade 5 sheet first.

6th grade word problems by topic

Other grades

Sources

  1. Common Core State Standards Initiative, Grade 6 introduction. Read October 27, 2026.

Want a tutor that asks “how do you know?” every day? Kizupi’s pixel owl reads each problem aloud, hints one small step at a time and never hands over the answer. Grades 1–6.

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