FOURTH GRADE MATH CURRICULUM*

Ongoing:

  • Analyzing/solving word problems
  • Analyzing/solving multiple step word problems
  • Identifying and utilizing problem solving strategies – Draw a Picture, Look for a Pattern, Make a Table, Use Objects/Act it Out, Guess and Check, Use Logical Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
  • Math Journals – explaining in writing the processes they are using
  • Mastery of addition and subtraction facts
  • Mastery of multiplication and division facts
  • Continual practice of concepts after they have been introduced
  • Developing mental math strategies
  • Money – counting money and giving change

PLACE VALUE

  • Place value through billions
  • Comparing and ordering whole numbers
  • Rounding whole numbers

REVIEW OF REGROUPING IN ADDITION AND SUBRACTION

  • Regrouping in addition
  • Column addition – more than three addends
  • Regrouping in subtraction
  • Balancing number sentences
  • Estimating sums and differences

GRAPHS AND DESCRIBING DATA

  • Reading and developing frequency tables, bar graphs, line graphs, line plots, and stem-and-leaf plots
  • Ordered pairs and use of coordinate grids
  • Range, median, outlier, and mode

BASIC MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION CONCEPTS

  • Review multiplication and division conceptually
  • Explore patterns in multiplying by 0,1,2,5,9,10,11 ,12
  • Basic multiplication and division facts – mastery
  • Factors and factoring numbers
  • Prime and composite numbers

MULTIPLICATION

  • Multiplying three digit factors
  • Regrouping in multiplication
  • Multiplying by multiples of 10
  • Multiplying with 2-3 digit factors
  • Multiplying money

DIVISION

  • Exploring division patterns
  • Division with remainders
  • Long division using 3+digit quotients
  • Zeros in the Quotients
  • Finding the mean

DESCRIBING ALGEBRAIC PATTERNS

  • Identify, describe, and extend patterns
  • Find the rule

GEOMETRY/SPATIAL REASONING

  • Solids and polygons
  • Two and three-dimensional figures
  • Triangles and angles
  • Quadrilaterals
  • Line symmetry
  • Parallel and intersecting lines
  • Rotations, reflections, and translations/congruent figures

MEASURING LENGTH, AREA, AND TEMPERATURE

  • Customary units of length
  • Metric units of length
  • Perimeters, area, volume
  • Temperatures

MEASURING CAPACITY, WEIGHT, AND VOLUME

  • Customary units of capacity and weight
  • Metric units of capacity and weight
  • Volume
  • Elapsed time

FRACTIONS

  • Naming and writing fractions
  • Mixed numbers – proper and improper fractions
  • Reading and writing equivalent fractions
  • Simplest form fractions
  • Comparing and ordering fractions
  • Fraction of a Set
  • Adding and subtracting fractions

DECIMALS

  • Reading and writing decimals
  • Decimal place value relationships
  • Comparing and ordering decimals
  • Rounding decimals
  • Adding and subtracting decimals
  • Exploring fractions as decimals
  • Fraction and decimal equivalents

*Meets all State and National MathStandards