3 posts tagged with 4th Grade Math
4th graders learn long division procedurally and then lose half the word-problem points because they don't know what to DO with the remainder. Three rules — keep, drop, round up — cover every state test item.
4th graders meet algebraic thinking for the first time through multi-step word problems with variables. The biggest gap is between word-problem reading and equation writing. Here's the habit that closes it.
4th graders meet large numbers and rounding for the first time at the same time. Here's the one underlying rule — the times-ten relationship from 4.NBT.A.1 — that makes everything else in the unit click.