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Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics ...

Description: Long division can be confusing and challenging for 4th graders.  In this fully scripted and interactive lesson they will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division and attend to precision
• • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
• Utilize prior division knowledge to practice the traditional algorithm for dividing with one digit divisors
• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors
• Use strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division
• Practice the algorithm for dividends up to 4 digits in size
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics ...

Description: Review and practice division with your 4th graders with this lightly scripted 60-90 minute lesson.  Your students will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
• Determine whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors
• Practice different strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division
• Use area models with division problems in order to formulate a conventional way in which to divide whole numbers
• Create an area model of a sky scrapper
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6

Skills: Attention to precision Work in collaborative partnerships Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification ...

Description: Have fun with your 3rd graders and reinforce the mathematical concepts of measuring, estimating and solving for mass and volume.  This lightly scripted and engaging lesson provides multiple opportunities for your students to engage in the language of measurement and practice solving word problems.  They will:

• Attention to precision
• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
• Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l)
• Add, subtract, multiply or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.MD.A.2, MP6, SL.3.6

Skills: Pose and respond to specific academic math questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link ...

Description: Focus on the academic language of math and prime numbers with this interactive, engaging lightly scripted 1 hour lesson.  Your 4th graders will:

• Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors.
• Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1-100
• Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number
• Identify whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.4, MP1, SL.4.1.C

Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of math Model with mathematics and attend to precision Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with ...

Description: Do your 4th graders need more practice with adding fractions?  We thought so...grab this lightly scripted, interactive 1 hour lesson for your students.  They will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of math
• Model with mathematics and attend to precision
• Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100
  • Use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NF.5, MP2, MP4, MP6

Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of math Look for and make use of structure Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and ...

Description: Helping our 4th graders truly understand place value while comparing multiplication equations is foundational to applying the skill to more complex problems.  In this interactive, lightly scripted lesson (60-90 minutes) your students will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of math
  • Look for and make use of structure
  • Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and understanding
• Apply the skill of interpreting multiplication to a real-life application
• Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison
• Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations
• Demonstrate their understanding by playing the game " I Have... Who Has...?"  to practice multiplicative comparisons
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.1, MP 7, SL.4.1.D