4th- The What

What skills should my student have mastered before the end of the year in 4th grade to be set up for success in 5th grade?

By the end of September:

• Proficiency with multiplicative comparison, prime and composite numbers, and generating and analyzing patterns

By the end of October:

• Proficiency with understanding of place value relationships with whole numbers

• Proficiency with finding factor pairs within 100 (example: factor pairs for 24 are 1& 24, 2 & 12, 3 & 8, 4 & 6)

By the end of November:

By the end of December:

• Proficiency with adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, multiplying a fraction by a whole number, and decimal fraction equivalence and addition 

By the end of January:

• Proficiency with reading, writing, comparing, and rounding multidigit whole numbers and understanding of relative unit size

• Proficiency with fraction & decimal equivalence, decimals to hundredths, comparing fractions, & comparing decimals

• Proficiency adding and subtracting whole numbers with the standard algorithm

By the end of February:

• Proficiency with identifying and drawing points, parallel and perpendicular lines, line segments, rays, lines of symmetry, and angles

• proficiency with classifying 2-D figures 

• proficiency with measuring angles and solving angle problems

By the end of March:

• Proficiency with multidigit division (4-digit dividends and 1-digit divisors) and multidigit multiplication (two 2-digit factors; 2-, 3-, and 4-digits by 1-digit) 

• Proficiency with area and perimeter 

By the end of April:

• Proficiency with multistep problem situations expected (all operations)