Fourth grade math builds upon what was learned in previous years touching on all of the subjects previous learned, but at a greater level of difficulty. The first group of functions I am listing should be taught year round. The remaining functions can be taught as separate lessons and do not really require constant practice.
Students should learn and have daily practice in:
- Students must be able to add and subtract to seven places (millions)
- Students must be able to convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.
- Students must be able to multiply and divide fact up to 144 (12 times tables)
- Students must be able to multiply 1,2, and 3 digit numbers (hundreds)
- Students must be able to divide 2 and 3 digit numbers by single digit numbers (ex: 30 divided by 5).
- Students must be able to find simple averages (which will some of the previously learned functions).
- Students must be able to solve mathematical word problems.
Your fourth grader should also:
- Read and write numbers such as one, twenty, one thousand, etc.
- Learn Roman numerals to C (100)
- Learn Prime numbers up to 97 which is the highest prime number under 100
- Learn to do Prime factoring
- Base Ten numeration systems where children should understand multi-digit numbers in terms of place value, and recognizing that place-value notation is a shorthand for the sums of multiples of powers of 10 (e.g., 433 as 4 hundreds + 3 tens + 3 ones).
- Learn the meaning of mixed numbers
- Geometric concepts such as polygons, triangles, angles, and sides
- Learn to compare customary and metric measurement
- Learn to tell time to the second
- Learn to chard and decipher graphs
As I mentioned in Third Grade Math Curriculum, there are numerous online websites provide lessons and worksheets to help your third grader learn these concepts. If you would like to purchase a simple math lesson book to help you teach these concepts you can try Math made Easy. If you would like a math curriculum that teaches these concepts without much help on your part, you can try teaching textbooks, or a math CDROM set.
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