Math Department

Elementary School Resources

Elementary Math Content Standards

Fourth Grade Content Standards

Estimation

• Use appropriate estimation strategies.
• Understand relationship between computation and estimation.
• Apply appropriate estimation strategies when solving problems.

Number Sense

• Identify, represent, and explain place value concepts using models, money, pictures, symbols, and words.
• Read and write numbers.
• Understand place value concepts.
• Use equivalent names for numbers.
• Read and write Roman numerals.
• Build rectangular arrays for the whole numbers.
• Identify, represent, and explain factors using models, pictures, symbols, and words.
• Identify real world applications for fractions.
• Compare and order fractions using models and pictures.
• Explore ancient numeration systems (relate to social studies).

Concepts of Number Operations

• Write, experience, and explain processes in problem solving situations.
• Use manipulatives to invent, model, and describe different procedures for finding sums, differences, products, and quotients.
• Model, interpret, and describe different problem situations for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Computation

• Demonstrate reasonable proficiency with multiplication and division.
• Demonstrate reasonable proficiency with addition , subtraction, multiplication, and division involving money values.
• Use mental math when appropriate.
• Select appropriate method for computation (pencil and paper, mental math, calculator, computer).
• Expand use of error analysis to include all operations.

Geometry

• Explore the various characteristics of 2- and 3-dimensional geometric shapes.
• Apply symmetry concepts to geometric shapes.
• Recognize, identify, and describe properties of congruent shapes.
• Explore properties of 2-dimensional shapes through drawing, modeling, comparing, measuring, and classifying.
• Develop spatial sense by exploring different perspectives (views) of 3-dimensional shapes.
• Explore properties of rectangles; find area and perimeter.
• Locate points on the coordinate plane.

Measurement

• Solve real life problems involving elapsed time.
• Find perimeters of regular and irregular shapes.
• Find areas of regular shapes.
• Estimate areas of irregular shapes.
• Develop and use formulas for finding perimeters of geometric shapes.
• Solve real life problems involving map scales.
• Solve real life problems involving temperature.
• Solve real life problems involving metric and standard units of volume, capacity, weight, and length.

Statistics

• Collect, organize, and describe data.
• Construct charts, tables, and graphs.
• Interpret, explain, and describe data from charts, tables, and graphs.
• Predict trends using charts, graphs, and tables.
• Find mean, median and mode.

Probability

• Make predictions based on own experience and experiments.
• Explore a variety of probability experiments.
• Generalize events of likely, unlikely, certain, and luck based on experiments, experience, and data.
• Analyze and present probability data using simple fractions.
• Create probability story problems.

Patterns

• Develop an awareness of patterns in relationship to mathematics and the natural world.
• Discover, demonstrate, and extend patterns using manipulatives.
• Formulate rules to describe patterns and apply the rules to extend the patterns.
• Formulate descriptions of patterns and their relationship to number operations.
• Explore patterns represented in tables, graphs, rules, and problem solving situations.
• Explore how change in one quantity results in change in another.

Algebra

• Use shapes or letters to represent numbers in number sentences.
• Find solutions for open sentences.
• Use manipulatives to describe and solve equations with an unknown.
• Write and solve story problems using equations containing a variable for an unknown.