4th Grade Math Overview


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Fourth Grade Math

Instructor: Jerod Jones

 

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Elementary school math sets the foundation for students' mathematical understanding for years to come.  It is for this reason that students need to recognize that math skills, such as fractions, are not isolated in real life.  Too many math programs isolate math skills into units and never integrate those units with each other.  This year in fourth grade, students will study math in a way that is relevant to the real world: integrated and application based.

 

    Throughout the year the students participate in activities that involve math application. Whether it be designing a disc golf course, creating and interpreting computer generated graphs, or analyzing the geometric forms of local architecture, the fourth graders obtain first hand knowledge of how math influences the world in which we live.