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Curriculum |
Fourth grade is a big year in math. The students learn many new concepts and skills that may have been touched on in prior grades but are now developed even more deeply. It is my hope that the students come into 4th grade already knowing addition and subtraction facts to 12 and having a fair number of multiplication facts memorized. In 4th grade the students will work on memorizing all multiplication and division facts. It is important that the students have these facts memorized because much of the work that we will do this year requires them to know the facts so they do not have to worry about that piece. Instead, the students can concentrate on learning the new concepts.
We will be doing work with having the students develop a better mental number sense by working with the base-10 system. All of our units will integrate this concept in one way or another.
Here is a rough idea of what we will be working on throughout the year. I will update this page as the new months approach.
Continuously throughout the year: Counting skills (forwards, backwards, by odds, by evens, skip counting forwards and backwards); Facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); Mathematical expression using both verbal and written skills (explaining how and why they get their answers); Problem solving (select and use appropriate operations to solve problems)
August - October ~ Multiplication and Division Skills
Properties (distributive, associative, commutative, identity and zero)
Solving problems in a variety of ways
Arrays/open arrays
properties
place value concepts
known facts
Inverse operations
Area
Perimeter
Volume
Combinations
Relationship between quotative and partitive division
November - December ~
January - February ~
