4th Grade Goals

  

 

Term 1 September-November

Topic 1: Generalize Place Value Understanding 

• Students will practice numbers through one million
• Students will review place values
• Students will compare whole numbers 
• Students will round whole numbers

Topic 2: Fluently Add and Subtract Multi-Digit Whole Numbers

• Students will practice finding sums and differences using mental math
• Students will estimate sums and differences
• Students will add and subtract whole numbers
• Students will subtract across zeros
• Students will use math tools such as place value blocks, place value charts

Topic 3: Use Strategies and Properties to Multiply by 1-Digit Numbers

• Students will multiply by multiples of 10, 100, 1000
• Students will estimate products
• Students will use arrays and partial products to multiply 
• Students will use area models and partial products to multiply 
• Students will use area and partial products to multiply 
• Students will use mental math to multiply 

Topic 4: Use Strategies and Properties to Multiply by 2 Digit Numbers 

• Students will use models to multiply 2 Digit Numbers 
• Students will estimate, use rounding or compatible numbers to multiple 2 digit numbers
• Students will use arrays, models and partial products to multiply 2 digit numbers 
• Students will use math tools such as grid paper, place value blocks to multiply 2 digit numbers 

Topic 5: Using Strategies and Properties to Divide by 1 Digit Numbers 

• Students will use mental math to find quotients and estimate quotients 
• Students will interpret remainders
• Students will use partial quotients to divide 
• Students will use sharing to divide 

Topic 6: Use Operations with Whole Numbers to Solve Problems 

• Students will solve comparison problems 
• Students will model multi step problems

Term 2: December- March

Topic 7: Factors and Multiples

• Students can find a factor of a number.
• Students can choose the correct factors of a given number.
• Students can find all the factor pairs of a number.
• Students can identify whether a number up to 100 is prime or composite.
• Students can choose the multiples of a given number up to 10.

Topic 8: Extend Understanding of Fraction, Equivalence, and Ordering

• Students can find equivalent fractions using area models.
• Students can graph equivalent fractions on number lines.
• Students can identify equivalent fractions using number lines.
• Students can find the missing numerator or denominator in equivalent fractions.
• Students can recognize and describe patterns in equivalent fractions.

Topic 9: Understanding Addition and Subtraction of Fractions

• Students can add and subtract fractions with like denominators using models such as strip models and number lines.
• Students can decompose fractions in multiple ways to support addition and subtraction.
• Students can identify and work with mixed numbers.
• Students can add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators.
• Students can use number lines to represent, add, and subtract fractions and mixed numbers.
• Students can solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators.

Topic 10: Extend Multiplication Concepts to Fractions

• Students can multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using number lines and models.
• Students can find missing values in patterns involving multiples of unit fractions.
• Students can multiply fractions by whole numbers using number lines and visual models.
• Students can complete equations that show fractions being multiplied by whole numbers.
• Students can convert units of time.

Topic 11: Represent and Interpret Data and Line Plots

• Students can interpret information shown on line plots.
• Students can create line plots that include fractional data.
• Students can create and interpret line plots that use fractions.

Topic 12: Understand and Compare Decimals

• Students can model decimals and fractions using visual representations.
• Students can convert fractions and mixed numbers into decimals.
• Students can graph decimals and fractions as decimals on number lines.
• Students can compare decimals using models and numerical reasoning.
• Students can add fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.
• Students can add and subtract money amounts in real‑world word problems.
• Students can find the change, price, or amount paid in money situations.

Trimester 3 March -June 

Topic 13:Measurement: Find Equivalence in Units of Measure 

• Students can convert customary units of length.
• Students can convert customary units of volume.
• Students can convert customary units of weight.
• Students can convert metric units of length.
• Students can convert metric units of mass and volume.
• Students can find the missing side length of a rectangle.

Topic 14: Algebra: Generate and Analyze Patterns

• Students can use a rule to complete addition and subtraction patterns.
• Students can use a rule to complete multiplication and division input/output tables.
• Students can identify and extend shape patterns by finding the next shape in the sequence.

Topic 15: Understand Concepts of Angles and Angle Measurement

• Students can identify points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles.
• Students can classify angles as acute, right, obtuse, or straight.
• Students can understand and describe angles as fractions of a circle.
• Students can estimate the size of angles.
• Students can measure angles accurately using a protractor.
• Students can draw angles of given measurements using a protractor.

Topic 16: Lines, Angles and Shapes

• Students can identify and describe parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines.
• Students can classify triangles and quadrilaterals based on their properties.
• Students can recognize all correct names that apply to a quadrilateral.
• Students can identify and count lines of symmetry in shapes.
• Students can draw lines of symmetry accurately.

	Reading Themes	Writing Genre	Dates
Module 1	What Makes Us Who We Are?  (Realistic Fiction, Informational Text, Fantasy, Narrative Poetry, Folktale)	Personal Narrative	September- October
Module 3	Rise to the Occasion (Biography, Argumentative Text, Historical Fiction, Informational Text/Interview, Play, Autobiographical Fiction)	Opinion Essay	October-November
Module 4	Heroic Feats (Realistic Fiction, Informational Text, Fairy Tale, Narrative Nonfiction, Myth/Play)	Story	December-January
Module 5	Art Everywhere (Biography, Argumentative Text, Biography, Informational Video, Poetry)	Expository Essay	January- February
Module 6	Marvels of Nature  (Informational Text, Literacy Nonfiction, Poetry)	Letter	February-March
Module 7	Tricksters and Tall Tales (Informational Text, Tall Tale, Folktale, Fable, Legend)	Imaginative Story	March-May
Module 9	Global Guardians (Informational Text, Letter, Graphic Novel, Realistic Fiction, Argumentative Text, Biography)	Research Report	May-June
Module 12	Genre Fiction Focus (Realistic Fiction, Traditional Tales)	Editorial	June