✨ Grade 4 math focuses on:
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Developing fluency with multi-digit multiplication and division
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Deepening understanding of place value up to 1,000,000
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Working with fractions and decimals, including addition, subtraction, and equivalence
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Exploring measurement concepts like angles, area, and volume
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Analyzing data through line plots and graphs
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Understanding geometry including lines, angles, and symmetry
Grade 4 learners engage with hands-on activities and real-world problems that build confidence and critical thinking.
🧮 Key Math Strands & Detailed Topics
1. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
➕ Topics:
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Multiply multi-digit whole numbers (up to 4 digits by 1 digit)
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Divide with two-digit divisors
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Solve multi-step word problems involving all operations
🛠 Activities:
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Use area models and partial products to multiply
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Practice division with manipulatives or drawings
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Create and solve real-life word problems
2. Number and Operations in Base Ten
🔢 Topics:
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Understand place value to 1,000,000
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Round multi-digit numbers to any place
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Fluently add and subtract multi-digit numbers
🛠 Activities:
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Build large numbers with base-ten blocks or place value charts
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Play rounding games with number cards
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Solve addition and subtraction problems with visual aids
3. Number and Operations — Fractions and Decimals
➗ Topics:
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Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
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Understand decimal notation for fractions (tenths and hundredths)
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Compare decimals and fractions
🛠 Activities:
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Use fraction strips and decimal grids to visualize operations
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Convert fractions to decimals with hands-on models
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Compare decimals and fractions using number lines
4. Measurement and Data
📏 Topics:
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Measure angles using protractors
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Calculate area and perimeter of rectangles and compound shapes
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Understand volume as counting unit cubes
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Interpret data on line plots and other graphs
🛠 Activities:
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Measure and draw angles with protractors
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Use graph paper to find area and perimeter
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Build volume models with cubes
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Collect data and create line plots
5. Geometry
🔺 Topics:
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Classify shapes by properties (sides, angles)
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Understand lines of symmetry and classify angles (right, acute, obtuse)
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Identify parallel and perpendicular lines
🛠 Activities:
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Sort and classify shapes using attributes
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Explore symmetry with folding and drawing
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Use rulers and protractors to identify types of angles and lines
✅ Grade 4 Math Goals
By the end of Grade 4, students typically can:
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Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers fluently
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Work confidently with fractions and decimals
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Measure and calculate angles, area, perimeter, and volume
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Interpret complex data sets
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Understand geometric concepts and properties
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