4th Grade Math Planning
February 26, 2019
Updates:
- DCA Data day is set for Thursday, March 21st
- Tutorials(now referred to as Math Club, will begin April 3rd-May 9th, on Wednesdays and Thursdays
- Classroom teachers will pull the "bubble" kids again this year and will replace RM with IReady, but same format as last year.
- Maggie and I will not pull the bubble kids this year, but rather the 4th graders that we need to move up to meets and masters.
Small Group Binder Check on February 28th
DCA2 Blueprints and procedures.
- Monday, March 4th
- 4 hours
- 31 multiple choice and 3 griddables for a total of 34 questions
- Use as a SLO tracker?
- SLO Focus: Find the attachment at the bottom of the Smore.
- Your room must be prepared before you leave on Friday afternoon.
- Please cover your math word walls and anchor charts. If this changes, I will let you know ASAP.
Data sheets from last year
- check to see how your students performed
IReady Learning Games: How to Navigate and Tips and Resources
Mari's Accommodations Spreadsheet: confirm on-line testing
Rees Accommodations for math
Please look for lesson ideas in LearnZillion, Flocabulary and Nearpod
Thinking Maps Templates-
Unit 9: Area, Perimeter, and Symmetry Test is March 7th. Boys Club: Who are the students and when should they test. School City may not be available.
- 4.5D-Readiness Standard- solve problems related to perimeter and area of rectangles where dimensions are whole numbers. (So can be with the formulas)
- 4.5C-Supporting- Use models to determine the formulas for perimeter of a rectangle (non-assessable)
- 4.6B-Supporting- Identify and draw one or more lines of symmetry, if they exist, for a two-dimensional figure.
- Perimeter-measuring the length around an object (must use sentence stems to clarify the difference!) This is critical. Have these posted in the room and encourage students not only to say them ,but to write them as well when solving problems.
- The perimeter around the object is ___________. Area-measuring the space inside the object) The area inside the object is _________.
- Review finding halves for area. Use grid paper.
- Use the bulletin board as an example. The border vs. the amount of paper needed to cover.
- Perimeter is recorded in units and area is reflected in square units.
- Vary the context of the problems. Such as, given the dimensions of the rectangle you have to determine the area and perimeter. Given the perimeter of a square you have to determine the area. Given the area of a square you have to determine the perimeter. Given the length of one side and the perimeter you have to determine the area. Given the lengths of one side and the area you have to determine the perimeter.
- They may have to measure first before finding the solution. They need to practice measuring with the math reference charts.
- When teaching the formulas, students should be using concrete objects (color tiles).
- Connect how a square is also a rectangle, so the formulas will work as well.
- Use the math reference charts.
- Students love using Miras for symmetry. Model how to rotate the object to get different points of view.
- This is their first time for symmetry unless it has been mentioned in science or during the 3rd grade EDC.
- Make area connections with multiplication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqtumES-rQ
Unit 10: Conversion of Measurement and Unit 11: Data Analysis- April 11th
Unit 10: Conversion of Measurements
We may need to take as 2 separate grades or come up with a plan for another major math grade.
- share anchor chart from last year
- Readiness Standard- 4.8C Solve problems that deal with measurements of length, intervals of time, liquid volumes, mass and money using the 4 operations.
- Supporting 4.8A Identify relative sizes of measurement units within the customary and metric systems
- Supprting 4.8B Convert with the same system when given equivalent measures represented in a table.
- Students must develop BENCHMARKS and mental images
- Teach the language- "kilo" means a thousand, etc.
- Students need to explore the patterns and relationships in the conversion tables.
- Students need to create the tables as well. Use a two-column chart.
- Sentence Stem "If ________ is ________, then ______ is ________ because ____________"
- "If one foot is 12 inches, then 3 feet is 36 inches because there are 3 groups of 12."
- Multi-step word problems with perimeter, elapsed time, filling/dispensing of containers, comparison of weight and comparison of money.
- May include addition and subtraction with fractions and decimals and 4 by 1 multiplication and division.
- What are some good elapsed time questions to ask during EDC?
- Remember to go over the math chart often
- 12.1 Length- Benchmark of Rees to Kroger is about a mile or a kilometer. A baseball bat is about a meter or yard or you can use from the doorknob on a door. Demonstrate when converting from larger to smaller you put your arms out and then cross over chest to make a multiplication sign and vice versa for division.
- 12.2 Mass, Weight and Volume- piece of bread is about an ounce, loaf is a pound and bread truck is about a ton. The House of "G" for liquid measurement.
- 12.3 Time- Use number bonds and number lines for elapsed time. I added another day than what was suggested. Use questions from the released STAAR test from the past 2 years and problems in Motivational Math.
- Benchmarks, grid paper and math reference charts are the key!
Unit 11: Data Analysis-
- (R) Represent data on a frequency table, dot plot(line plot), or stem-and-leaf plot with whole numbers AND FRACTIONS
- (S) solve one and two step problems using data in whole number, fraction and decimal form in a frequency table, dot plot (line plot) or stem-and-leaf plot.
- https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6/create-frequency-tables
- https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/dot-plot/v/frequency-tables-and-dot-plots
- Lessons come from 3rd grade Bar and Pictographs and 5th grade stem and leaf. Discuss and determine which pages to copy and print out.
Misc
- Interactive Measurement Cards
- 3-D Anchor Chart
- Math Reference Chart Posters