Content Emphasized in Grade 4

In Everyday Mathematics children develop a broad background by learning concepts and skills in all these six content strands. The Third grade program emphasizes the following content

Number and Numeration
Reading, writing and using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, and negative numbers; exploring scientific notation

Operations and Computation
Practicing addition and subtraction to proficiency; developing multiplication and division skills; exploring addition; subtraction, multiplication and division methods; inventing individual procedures and algorithms; experimenting calculator procedures.

Data and Chance
Collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting numerical data.

Measurement and Reference Forms
Exploring Metric and U.S. customary measures; linear, area, volume, and weight; exploring geographical measures; using numbers in reference frames; number lines; coordinates, times and dates; latitude and longitude

Geometry
Developing an intuitive sense about 2 dimensional and 3-dimensional objects, their properties, uses and relationships

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Designing, exploring, and using geometric and number patters; reading, writing, and solving number sentences