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Fourth Grade Math - 4th Grade Math Course of Study

4th Grade Math Course of Study

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The following list provides you with the basic concepts that should be attained by the end of the school year. Mastery of the concepts at the previous grade is assumed.

Number

  • Read print numbers to 10 000 and locate, compare, order, represent, estimate and identify numbers to 10 000
  • Count by 3's, 4's, 6's, 7's, 8's, 9's, and 10's to 100
  • Multiplication facts are committed to memory up to the 10 X tables. (Understand the division facts also)
  • Understand decimals to the hundredths 0.01 and be able to add and subtract decimals.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of fractions.
  • Select the appropriate problem solving methods in word problems for the above operations

Measurement

  • Complete understanding of inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers etc.
  • Measure accuratey, and make appropriate estimations of which units of measure apply.
  • Full understanding of years, decades, centuries, millenniums.
  • Full comphrension of making change and adding money uip to $50.00
  • Measure perimenter and area and be able to measure a variety of polygons.
  • Measure mass and volume by selecting the appropriate units

Geometry

  • Identify, sort, classify a variety of geometric shapes and figures.
  • Make a variety of geometric 'skeletons' with straws, toothpics etc.
  • Full understanding of similar and congruent figures.
  • Measure a variety of angles with a protractor.
  • Apply translations, reflections and rotations with geometric figures, geo-boards and coordinates.

Algebra/Patterning

  • Identify, create, analyze and extend patterns and describe the rules
  • Determine the values in equations when there are missing terms in the four operations.
  • Demonstrate equivalence in equations with the 4 operations.

Probability

  • Predict results based on logical reasoning before collecting data
  • Conduct surveys and experiments and represent the collected data on a graph
  • Construct a variety of graphs and label them appropriately
  • Discuss the real world need for data and the collection of data
  • Read and interpret data in a variety of graphs etc.
  • Begin using tree diagrams to organize data, make decision on data gathered and sorted.

All Grades

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