FourthGradeTrimesterLearningTargets

MathConcepts

Trimester1

Trimester2

Trimester3

NumberSense,Data,&
Operations

4.1.1.1
Icanmultiplybasic
facts1through9
accuratelyand
efficientlywithoutusing
tools.
LanguageObjectives:
Icandiscussmultiplication
usingthesentenceframe,IfI
had_____groupsof_____,
thenIwouldhave_____
altogether.

4.1.1.2
Icanusemy
understandingofplace
valuetomultiplya
numberby10.
Icanusemy
understandingofplace
valuetomultiplya
numberby100.
Icanusemy
understandingofplace
valuetomultiplya
numberby1,000.
LanguageObjectives:
Ican
categorizenumbersbytheir
placevalue.

4.1.1.1
Icandividebasicfacts
usingdivisors1through
9accuratelyand
efficientlywithoutusing
tools.
LanguageObjectives:
Icandiscussdivisionusing
thesentenceframe,IfIhave
onegroupof_____,thenIcan
separateitinto_____equal
groups.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
divisor,dividedby,quotient

4.1.1.5
Icansolvemultistep
realworldmultiplication
problemsusingupto
3digitby2digit
numbers.
Icandemonstratemy
thinkingbyshowingmy
solutioninmorethan
oneway.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandthe
vocabularyofeachstory
problemandidentifywhatthe
questionisasking.

4.1.2.7
Icanrounddecimalsto
thenearesttenth.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanidentifythenearest
landmarktenth.
Icanexplainmythinkingusing
sentencestemslike,The
number___isclosetothe
number____,orIrounded
thatnumberupordownto
______.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
digit,tenth,nearest,about,
approximately,landmark
number,roundup,rounddown

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Icandescribetherelationship
betweennumbersmultipliedby
10,100,and1,000.

4.1.1.3
Icanusemy
knowledgeofplace
valuetoefficiently
multiplymultidigit
numbersusingavariety
ofstrategies,including
standardalgorithms.
LanguageObjectives:
Ican
describethestrategyor
algorithmsequentially.
Icanaccuratelyusethe
sentencestem,Inordertofind
theproduct,I
Icanusetargetedmath
vocabularyformultiplicative
taskstodescribemyactionsas
amathematician.
Possiblelanguageneeded:
sequencemarkerslikeordinal
numbersorfirst,nextthen,
finally,multipliedby,factor,
product,add,sum,carry,place
value,digit,etc.

4.1.1.4
Icanestimatethe
productandquotientof

Icanusekeywordsandtext
structuretodeterminewhich
operationisneeded.
Icanidentifytheunitsanduse
themaccuratelyinmyanswer.
Icantranslateawordproblem
intoanumbersentence.
Icanpredictareasonable
answer.
IcandescribehowIsolveda
problemusingthestem.I
foundthesolutionforthis
problemby

4.1.16
Icanusemultiple
strategiestodivide
multidigitnumbersby1
or2digitdivisors.
LanguageObjectives:
Ican
accuratelyusethesentence
stem,Inordertofindthe
quotient,I
Icanusetargetedmath
vocabularyfordivisiontasksto
describemyactionsasa
mathematician.
Possiblelanguageneeded:
sequencemarkers,dividedby,
quotient,divisor,dividend

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multidigitwhole
numbers.
Icanusemy
knowledgeofrounding,
benchmarknumbers
andplacevalueto
determineiftheanswer
isreasonable.
o Benchmark,
friendly,and
landmark
numbers
LanguageObjectives:
Icancomparetherelationships
betweenanumberanda
landmarknumber.Example:
Thenumber298iscloseto
300.
Icandescriberoundingthe
multiplicandandthemultiplier
andthedividendandthe
divisor.
Icanexpressestimatesusing
keywordslikeaboutand
approximately.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
digit,nearest,closeto,about,
approximately,landmark
number,roundup,rounddown

4.1.1.5

4.1.2.2
Icanusemodelsto
orderwholenumbers
andfractions(including
mixedandimproper).
Icanusemodelsto
comparewhole
numbersandfractions
(includingmixedand
improper).
LanguageObjectives:
Icanlabelmodelswith
numbersandnumbernames.
Icanorallycomparefractions
andwholenumbersusing
comparinglanguageand
sequencingwords.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
morethan,lessthan,greater,
greatest,least,mixednumber,
improperfraction,numerator,
denominator,wholenumber.

4.1.2.3
Icansubtractfractions
withlikedenominators
inrealworldsituations.
Icancreatearulefor
subtractingfractions
withlikedenominators.
LanguageObjectives:

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Icansolvemultistep
realworldadditionand
subtractionproblems
usingupto5digit
wholenumbers.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandthe
vocabularyofeachstory
problemandidentifywhatthe
questionisasking.
Icanusekeywordsandtext
structuretodeterminewhich
operationisneeded.
Icantranslateawordproblem
intoanumbersentence.
IcandescribehowIsolveda
problemusingthestem.I
foundthesolutionforthis
problembyandusing
accuratemathvocabulary.

4.1.2.1
Icanusemodelsto
demonstrateequivalent
fractions.(Modelscan
includepartsofaset,
fractioncircles,fraction
strips,numberlinesand
manipulatives.)
LanguageObjectives:
Ican
orallycompareequivalent

Icanidentifythepartsofa
fraction.
Icanexplainhowthefraction
canbesubtractedwhenthe
denominatorsarethesame.

4.1.2.4
Icandescribedecimals
usingplacevaluefrom
thousandsto
thousandths.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanreadadecimalnumber.

4.1.2.5
Icanorderdecimals
andwholenumbers
usinganumberline.
LanguageObjectives:
Ican
differentiatebetweentensand
tenths,hundredsand
hundredths,andthousands
andthousandths.

4.1.2.6
Icanreadtenthsand
hundredthsindecimal
andfractionnotations.
Icanwritetenthsand
hundredthsindecimal
andfractionnotations
usingwordsand
symbols.

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fractionsusingvisualaids/
graphicrepresentations.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
sameas,equalto,etc.

4.1.2.2
Icanusemodelsto
showanunderstanding
ofmixednumbers.
Icanusemodelsto
showanunderstanding
ofimproperfractions.
Icanlocatewhole
numbersandfractions
(includingmixedand
improper)onanumber
line.
LanguageObjectives:
Icandescribeimproper
fractionsusingvisualaids/
graphicrepresentations.
Iunderstandthatnumbersin
denominatorshavedifferent
numbernames.
Icanreadamixednumber.
Icandescribefractionsusinga
numberlineasavisualaid.

4.1.2.3
Icanaddfractionswith
likedenominatorsin
realworldsituations.

Icanidentifyandmodel
fractionanddecimal
equivalentsforhalves
andfourths.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandthe
relationshipbetweendecimals
andfractionsandrecognize
whatitmeanstowritea
numberasadecimalorasa
fraction.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
sameas,equalto,half/halves,
fourth/fourths,tenths,
hundredths,etc.

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Icancreatearulefor
addingfractionswith
likedenominators.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanidentifythepartsofa
fraction.
Icanexplainhowthefraction
canbeaddedwhenthe
denominatorsarethesame.

4.1.2.4
Icanreaddecimalsin
wordandsymbolform.
Icanwritedecimalsin
wordandsymbolform.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanaccuratelyusetheword
point
insteadofdotorperiod
whenreadingdecimals.

4.1.2.5
Icancomparedecimals
andwholenumbers
usingplacevalueand
models,suchasgrids
andbase10blocks.

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Algebra

4.2.1.1
Icancreatean
inputoutputchartwhen
givenatwooperation
ruleinvarious
situations.(operations
include+,,x,/)
LanguageObjectives:
IcanusetheframeIfxis,
thenyis

4.2.1.1
Icanfindthe
twooperationrule
whentheinputoutput
pairsaregivenin
varioussituations.
LanguageObjectives:
IcanusetheframeIfxis,
thenyis
Possiblelanguageneeded:
rule,function,input,output,
expression.

4.2.2.1
Icanwritearealworld
storyproblemfora
givennumbersentence
thatusesmultiplication,
divisionandunknowns
(variables).
LanguageObjectives:
Icanwriteanarrativebased
onanumbersentence(using
multiplication,division,and
variables)torepresenta
realworldapplicationformath.
Iunderstandtheconceptof
variablesinthecontextof
math.

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4.2.2.2
Icanwriteanumber
sentencetorepresent
therealworldstory
problemusing
multiplication,division
andunknowns
(variables).
Icanfindvaluesforthe
unknownsin
multiplicationand
divisionnumber
sentences.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanidentifywhatinformation
isunknowninastoryproblem.
Icanwriteanumbersentence
basedonanarrative(using
multiplication,division,and
variables).

GeometryandMeasurement

4.3.1.1
Icandescribe,classify
andsketchtriangles
accordingtothelength
oftheirsidesinvarious
situations.
Icandescribe,classify
andsketchtriangles
accordingtothe
measurementsoftheir
interioranglesin
varioussituations.
LanguageObjectives:
I
canaccuratelyidentifyscalene,
equilateral,andisosceles
triangles.
Icancomparethelengthofthe
sidesinagiventriangleand
themeasurementofanglesin
agiventriangle.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:
sides,vertices,angles,
degrees

4.3.3.1
Icantranslate(slide)
geometricfigures.
LanguageObjectives:
IcandescribetheprocessI
usedtotranslateafigureusing
x,ycoordinates.

4.3.3.2

4.3.1.2
Icandescribe,classify
anddrawquadrilaterals
invarioussituations.
LanguageObjectives:
Icandefinetheterm
quadrilateralandidentify
specificquadrilateralsbyname
trapezoid,rhombus,etc.

4.3.2.1
Icanmeasureanglesin
geometricfiguresand
realworldobjectswith
aprotractororangle
ruler.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandtheterm
angle.

4.3.2.2
Icancompareangles
accordingtosize.
Icanclassifyacute,
rightandobtuse
angles.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanusecomparative
languageex.greaterthan,
lessthan,most,least,to
compareangles.
PossibleLanguageNeeded:

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4.3.2.3
Icandemonstratethata
rectangleismadeupof
anarrayusingrowsand
columns.
Icanusemodelsto
provelengthtimeswidth
istheareaofa
rectangle.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanusemodelsand
manipulativestorepresentthe
lengthandwidthofarectangle.

Icanreflect(flip)
geometricfiguresover
verticalorhorizontal
lines.
LanguageObjectives:
I
candescribetheprocessI
usedtoflipafigureusingx,y
coordinates.

4.3.3.3
Icanrotate(turn)a
geometricfigure90
degreesclockwiseor
counterclockwise.
LanguageObjectives:
I
candescribetheprocessI
usedtorotateafigureusingx,y
coordinates.

angle,degrees,acute,obtuse,
right,greaterthan,lessthan,
most,least,etc

4.3.2.4
Icanapplythearea
formulatofindthearea
ofgeometricfiguresby
dividingtheminto
rectangularshapes.
Icanapplythearea
formulatofindthearea
ofrealworldobjectsby
dividingtheminto
rectangularshapes.
Icanlabelthearea
usingsquareunits.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanorallyexpresshowto
applytheareaformulathrough
recognitionofthelengthand
widthofrectangularobjects.
Icanunderstandtheconcept
ofsquareunits.

4.3.3.2
Icanmakea
connectionbetween
reflectionsandlinesof
symmetry.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandtheconcept

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ofreflectionsandlinesof
symmetry.

4.3.3.4
Icanrecognizethat
geometricfiguresstay
congruentafterbeing
translated,reflected,
androtated.
LanguageObjectives:
Icanunderstandandusethe
vocabularycongruent,
translated,reflected,and
rotatedinthecontextofmath.

DataAnalysis

4.4.1.1
Icanusetablesto
displaydatasets
(includingfractionsand
decimals.)
Icanusebargraphsto
displaydatasets
(includingfractionsand
decimals.)

LanguageObjectives:
Icandescribetheinformation
intables,bargraphs,andother
graphicrepresentationsofdata
setsusingthesentencestem,
Thisgraphshows

4.4.1.1

IcanuseVenn
diagramstodisplay
datasets(including
fractionsanddecimals.)
Icanusetimelinesto
displaydatasets
(includingfractionsand
decimals.)
LanguageObjectives:
Icandescribetheinformation
inVenndiagrams,timelines,
andothergraphic
representationsofdatasets
usingthesentencestem,This
graphshows

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Icanexplainwhichdatais
representedonthexandyaxis
ofabargraphorlinegraph.

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