Mathematics – Grade 4

 

Week

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

September - May

  • Accelerated Math
  • Review and apply math basic computation skills with whole numerals, decimal numerals, fractions
  • Review geometry terms
  • Objective Practices and Tests
  • Star Math Test
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September - May

  • Problem solving strategies
  • Making an organized list
  • Use or make a table
  • Use logical reasoning
  • Make a diagram or a picture
  • Make an easier problem
  • Too much or too little information
  • Solve multi-step problems
  • Apply order of operations

 

  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • I.1
  • I.2
  • I.3
  • I.4
  • I.5
  • I.6

 

September

Weeks 1-2

  • Understanding Place Value
  • Building Number Sense

 

  • Identify the place and value of any digit to hundred millions
  • Read and write numerals through the hundred millions
  • Compare and order numerals
  • Round numerals to a given place up to hundred millions

 

  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.1
  • II.A.2

September Weeks 3-4

 

  • Addition and subtraction using whole numbers

 

  • Identify the pattern of adding and subtracting on a thousand chart
  • Estimate sums and differences using rounding
  • Estimate using front-end estimation
  • Add 3-digit and 4-digit numerals with/without regrouping
  • Add columns of numerals
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.4
  • II.B.2
  • II.B.3

October

·        Adding and Subtracting using whole numbers

·        Using Money

·        Making an organized list

·        Using or making a table

  • Subtract 3-digit and 4-digit numerals
  • Subtract from numerals with middle zeros
  • Add and subtract numerals using mental math
  • Count and compare money values
  • Add and subtract money amounts
  • Solve for an unknown ‘n’ in a number sentence or identify the operation
  • Make change using as few coins and bills as possible
  • Applying an appropriate problem solving strategy such as “making an organized list” or “using or making a table”

 

  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.B.1
  • II.B.2
  • II.B.3
  • III.B.1
  • V.C.3

November

  • Basic Concepts and Facts for Multiplication
  • Using logical reasoning
  • Making a diagram or picture

 

  • Show models of multiplication and division using manipulatives, arrays, and/or pictures
  • Identify patterns when multiplying by 0, 1, 2, 5, and 9 (Properties of 1 and 0)
  • Multiply with 6, 7, or 8 as a factor
  • Identify patterns in multiples of 10, 11, and 12
  • Create stories using multiplication and division
  • Divide with divisors between 1-9 (division facts)
  • Identify even and odd numbers
  • List four equations as part of a fact family
  • Continue a pattern given a series of numerals
  • Applying an appropriate problem solving strategy such as “using logical reasoning” or “using a picture or diagram”
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.B.4
  • II.B.5
  • III.B.1
  • III.B.2
  • IV.B.2

December

  • Basic Concepts and Facts for Multiplication
  • Two-step word problems
  • Four basic operations and the calculator
  • Identify prime and composite numbers using arrays
  • Use problem solving strategies and graphic organizers to solve two-step word problems
  •  Use the TI-81 to solve basic computation problems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.B.4
  • II.B.5

January

  • Multiplying by 1, 2, and 3-Digit Factors by one-digit multipliers
  • Rounding and estimation with multiplication
  • Associative Property
  • Solve problems using decision making
  • Make a table problem solving strategy

 

  • Multiply by powers of ten
  • Estimate products using rounding
  • Estimate products using front-end digits
  • Multiply 2-digit numbers by one-digit multiplier
  • Multiply 3-digit numbers by one-digit multipliers
  • Multiply amounts of money
  • Use mental math to multiply
  • Multiply when you have three factors
  • Check products using estimation
  • Solve for an unknown ‘n’ in a number sentence or identify the operation
  • Multiply using the associative property
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Snowman Project
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.4
  • II.B.5
  • II.B.7
  • III.B.1
  • III.B.2

February

  • Multiplying with two-digit multipliers
  • Rounding and estimation with multiplication
  • Solve problems using analysis of data
  • Multiply two, three and four digit factors by two-digit multipliers
  • Multiply amounts of money
  • Check products using estimation
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.4

March

  • Reading tables and graphs

·        Making Graphs and tables

·        Summarizing Data

·        Identify a pattern

·        Geometry

 

  • Read and construct pictographs
  • Read and construct bar graphs
  • Read points as ordered pairs on a coordinate grid
  • Read and construct line graphs
  • Read and construct line plots
  • Read and construct stem-and-leaf plots
  • Find range, median, and mode of a given set of data
  • Collect and display data for the purpose of comparing and predicting
  • Use a table to identify a pattern or a rule
  • Identify solids: cylinder., cube, sphere, rectangular prism, triangular prism, cone, and pyramid
  • Identify polygons: square, circle, triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon
  • Identify angles: acute, right, obtuse and straight
  • Find perimeter and area of various quadrilaterals
  • Compare and contrast areas and perimeters of rectangles
  • Find volume of rectangular prisms
  • Identify lines of symmetry given various geometric shapes
  • Identify and draw lines: intersecting, parallel, and perpendicular
  • Identify flips, turns, and slides
  • Identify congruent and similar figures
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Data investigation project
  • M & M Assessment
  • Skittles Assessment
  • Accelerated Math
  • III.A.1
  • IV.4.1
  • IV.A.2
  • V.A.1
  • V.A.2
  • V.B.1
  • V.B.2
  • V.C.1
  • V.C.2

April

  • Probability
  • Making a simpler problem solving strategy
  • Tree Diagrams
  • Decimal Numerals
  • Fractions
  • Determine if future events are more, less, or equally likely to occur
  • Identify situations of fairness and unfairness
  • Predict outcome of future events
  • Read and write decimal numerals
  • Round decimal numeral
  • Order decimal numerals
  • Add and subtract decimal numerals
  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • M & M Assessment
  • Skittles Assessment
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.3
  • IV.B.1

May

  • Division with and without remainders
  • Division with one-digit divisors
  • Explore division patterns
  • Use basic facts to estimate quotients
  • Solve for an unknown ‘n’ in a number sentence or identify the operation
  • Divide with one-digit divisors and 1,2 and 3-digit quotients with and without remainders
  • Divide with one-digit divisors and 1,2, and 3-digit quotients with zeros

 

  • Facts timed tests
  • Daily assignments, group work with/without manipulatives, and class discussion
  • Board work
  • Teacher made tests and quizzes
  • Teacher observation
  • Accelerated Math
  • II.A.4
  • II.B.6
  • II.B.1

Latest update March 26, 2004

 

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