Math Overview ~ Grade 4
Notebooks, Texts, Tools & In Class Resources
Web Sites on the Internet with Math Games
Additional
Sources
Numeration Measurement
Geometry Algebra
Data
Notebooks, Texts, Tools & In Class Resources
In each student desk:
- Math Notebook
- Text
- Workbook
- MMM Duo-Tang - pre-printed number fact sheets for terms 1 & 2, MMNC - Mental Math Number Chains for term 3
- Problem Solving Duo-Tang - PS units: Term1 PWL, Term 2 WP & MB, Term 3 POTW
- Calculator - with % button, to calculate test results, check work, do complex word problems
- Ruler - 30 cm long, indicating cm and mm
- Protractor - in order to read angles in term 2
Resources in the Classroom:
- Text: Journeys in Math 4
- Text: Interactions 4
- Centicubes
- Geometric solids
- Tangrams
- Pentagonals
- Battleship
Number Sense & Numeration
- immediate recall of 9 times table (& division facts), decimals,
fractions, word problems
- MMM - Mad Minute Math drills - Terms 1 & 2
- To help immediate recall, students can use standard flashcards or Interactive Flashcards on the Internet
- MMNC - Mental Math Number Chains Term 3
- Rounding numbers / estimating
- Adding & Subtracting 4 digit numbers
- Multiplying 3 digit by 1 digit numbers
- Dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit with remainders
- Fractions & Decimals
Measurement
Knowledge of measurement units for- time
- money
- linear measurement - length, perimeter
- area
- volume
- mass
Geometry & Spatial Sense
- 2-D shapes - figures
- 3-D skeletons & solid objects
- similar & congruent figures
- patterns
- angles, using a protractor
- translation, reflection, rotation
- grid coordinates, similar & congruent shapes
Patterning & Algebra
- mathematical patterns used in problem-solving situations
- PWL - Playing With Logic
- WP - Word Problems
- MB - Mind Benders
- POTW - Problem Of The Week
- Interesting web sites
- Enchanted Mind Puzzles
- Brain Boosters at Discovery Education http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/
Data Management & Probability
- survey
- tally chart, bar graph, pictograph
- more probable, equally probable, less probable
Some Good Web Sites for Kids to learn math by playing GAMES!!!
- A+ Math A site developed to help student improve their math skills interactively.
- Amazing Math Mania Theme Park - ThinkQuest game site
- Aunty Math
Bi-weekly math challenges in story form.
- created by a math specialist (elementary teacher) in the USA, weekly math challenges
- Brain Teasers Produced by Houghton Mifflin, this site has weekly brain teasers.
- Cryptarithms This site lets you do brain teasers where you substitute numbers for letters to "solve" equations. The cryptarithms are displayed on the left side of the screen & the program lets you try to solve them.
- Cyberchase
- sponsored by The National Science Foundation & PBS, has games as well as activities that can be printed off by students & parents who want to do other math activities
- Enchanted Mind Puzzles http://www.enchantedmind.com/html/puzzles/interactive_puzzles/creative_java_puzzles.html
- Hungry for Math - starved for information on fractions? - ThinkQuest game site
- Math
- maintained by a school librarian, great site as a jumping off spot for many kid-friendly math sites that have challenges, math games, family math activities, and more
- Math and Mr. Sport - ThinkQuest game site
- Math Magic and Lively Limericks - ThinkQuest game site
- Math Republic - ThinkQuest game site
- Math Wizard - ThinkQuest game site
- mathforum.org - This site has a section for elementary students with problems, puzzles, weekly challenges and a way to connect with other kids who like math.
- Nuts About Geometry - ThinkQuest game site
- The Math File Game
Show
- maintained by the BBC, has games developing math skills in Numeration, Data Handling, Shapes Space & Measure, Algebra
- Tristan & Bob's Fifth Grade Math Quizzes - ThinkQuest game site
- Two Minute Mystery Writing Club
- Word
Problems For Kids
- made possible with funding by Canada's SchoolNet, word problems are for grades 5 to 12
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