According to the current Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Mathematics, students in fourth grade will focus on: (1) developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends; (2) developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators, and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers; (3) understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and classified based on their properties, such as having parallel sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and symmetry.
Through our new Investigations Curriculum, students will begin the year by mastering multiplication facts. We will then study data, geometry, addition, subtraction, fractions and decimals.
The main emphasis of the year, however, will be on multiplication and division. After mastering multiplication facts through 12, solving each in three seconds or fewer, students will work on using a variety of strategies to find the products and quotients of multi-digit numbers. (Press buttons below to see fourth grade strategies for multiplication and division.) Although some children will master the traditional algorithms in fourth grade, this skill is not expected until the end of fifth grade.
The main emphasis of the year, however, will be on multiplication and division. After mastering multiplication facts through 12, solving each in three seconds or fewer, students will work on using a variety of strategies to find the products and quotients of multi-digit numbers. (Press buttons below to see fourth grade strategies for multiplication and division.) Although some children will master the traditional algorithms in fourth grade, this skill is not expected until the end of fifth grade.
Overview of topics covered in each
mathematical strand in fourth Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number and Operations—Fractions
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Measurement and Data
Geometry
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