Standards - Mathematics

MA19.4.12

Use strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division to find whole-number quotients and remainders with one-digit divisors and up to four-digit dividends.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How to decompose and compose numbers in a variety of ways using place value and the properties of operations to demonstrate a variety of strategies for division.
  • Division can be described as an unknown factor problem.
  • A variety of contextual situations can be represented with a division equation.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use strategies based on place value to find whole number quotients and remainders.
  • Use the properties of operations to find whole number quotients and remainders.
  • Use arrays and area models to find whole number quotients and remainders.
  • Illustrate division situations with rectangular arrays and area models.
  • Write an equation to represent a division situation.

Understanding

Students understand that:
Division expressions represent
  • The number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups.
  • The number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.

Vocabulary

  • Quotient
  • Dividend
  • Divisor
  • Divide
  • Multiply
  • Multiple
  • Equation
  • Remainder
  • Area model
  • Greatest multiple
  • Decompose
  • Compose
  • Array
  • Properties of operations
  • Unknown factor
  • Partial quotient

MA19.4.13

Using area and length fraction models, explain why one fraction is equivalent to another, taking into account that the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Fractions can be equivalent even though the number of parts and size of the parts differ.
  • Two fractions are equivalent if they are at the same point on a number line or if they have the same area.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use area and length fraction models to explain why fractions are equivalent.
  • Recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • equivalent fractions are fractions that represent equal value.

Vocabulary

  • Fraction
  • Numerator
  • Denominator
  • Equivalent
  • Fraction model
  • Area model -Length model

MA19.4.13a

Apply principles of fraction equivalence to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

COS Examples

Example: $\frac{a}{b}$ is equivalent to $\frac{n \times a}{n \times b}$.

MA19.4.14

Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators using concrete models, benchmarks (0, $\frac{1}{2}$, 1), common denominators, and/or common numerators, recording the comparisons with symbols >, =, or <, and justifying the conclusions.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Comparing two fractions is only valid if they refer to the same whole.
  • Meaning of comparison symbols,, or = .
  • Fractions can be represented by a variety of visual models (length and area).

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use concrete models, benchmarks, common denominators, and common numerators to compare two fractions and justify their thinking.
  • Explain the comparison of two fractions is valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • When comparing fractions they must refer to the same whole.
  • Benchmark fractions can be used to compare fractions.
  • Fractions can be compared by reasoning about their size using part to whole relationship.
  • Fractions can be compared by reasoning about the number of same-sized pieces.
  • Fractions can be compared by reasoning about their size when there are the same number of pieces.
  • Fractions can be compared by reasoning about the number of missing pieces.

Vocabulary

  • Compare
  • Equivalent fraction
  • Numerator
  • Denominator
  • Benchmark fraction
  • Concrete model
  • Visual model
  • Length model
  • Area model

MA19.4.15

Model and justify decompositions of fractions and explain addition and subtraction of fractions as joining or separating parts referring to the same whole.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Situation contexts for addition and subtraction problems.
  • A variety of strategies and models to represent addition and subtraction situations.
  • The fraction a/b is equivalent to the unit fraction 1/b being iterated or "copied" the number of times indicated by the numerator, a.
  • A fraction can represent a whole number or fraction greater than 1 and can be illustrated by decomposing the fraction.
    Example: 6/3 = 3/3 + 3/3 = 2 and 5/3 = 3/3 + 2/3 = 1 2/3.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Decompose fractions as a sum of unit fractions.
  • Model decomposition of fractions as a sum of unit fractions.
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
  • Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction using visual models, drawings, and equations to represent the problem.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • A unit fraction (1/b) names the size of the unit with respect to the whole and that the denominator tells the number of parts the whole is partitioned, and the numerator indicates the number of parts referenced.
  • A variety of models and strategies can be used to represent and solve word situations involving addition and subtraction.
  • The operations of addition and subtraction are performed with quantities expressed in like units, and the sum or difference retains the same unit.

Vocabulary

  • Decomposition
  • Unit fraction
  • Area model
  • Length model
  • Equation
  • Mixed number
  • Visual fraction model
  • Whole
  • Sum
  • Difference
  • Recomposition

MA19.4.15a

Decompose a fraction as a sum of unit fractions and as a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way using area models, length models, and equations.

MA19.4.15b

Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators using fraction equivalence, properties of operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

MA19.4.15c

Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers having like denominators, using drawings, visual fraction models, and equations to represent the problem.

MA19.4.16

Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a whole number times a fraction.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Models or equations to represent multiplication situations.
  • The fraction a/b is equivalent to the unit fraction 1/b being iterated or "copied" the number of times indicated by the numerator, a.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Model and explain how a non-unit fraction can be expressed as multiplication.
  • Multiply a whole number times any fraction less than one.
  • Solve word problems involving a whole number times a fraction using a visual fraction model and equation to represent the problem.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Previous work involving multiplication with whole numbers can be extended to fractions in showing multiplication as putting together equal-sized fractional groups.
  • Problem solving situations involving multiplication of a whole number times a fraction can be solved using a variety of strategies, models, and representations.

Vocabulary

  • Whole number
  • Fraction
  • Non-unit fraction
  • Unit fraction
  • Fraction less than one
  • Fraction greater than one
  • Visual fraction model
  • Equation
  • Decompose
  • Recompose
  • Compose

MA19.4.16a

Model and explain how a non-unit fraction can be represented by a whole number times the unit fraction.

COS Examples

Example: $\frac{9}{8} = 9 \times \frac{1}{8}$

MA19.4.16b

Extend previous understanding of multiplication to multiply a whole number times any fraction less than one.

COS Examples

Example: $4 \times \frac{2}{3} = \frac{4 \times 2}{3} = \frac{8}{3}$

MA19.4.16c

Solve word problems involving multiplying a whole number times a fraction using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

COS Examples

Examples: $3 \times \frac{1}{2}, 6 \times \frac{1}{8}$

MA19.4.17

Express, model, and explain the equivalence between fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies for generating equivalent fractions.
  • Strategies for adding fractions with like denominators.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Express a fraction with a denominator of 10 as an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 100.
  • Use models to illustrate equivalency between fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.
  • Explain equivalency between fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.
  • Use equivalency to add two fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • equivalent fractions are fractions that represent equal value.

Vocabulary

  • Equivalence
  • Denominator
  • Fraction model
  • Tenths
  • Hundredths
  • Sum

MA19.4.18

Use models and decimal notation to represent fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies for finding equivalent fractions.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Represent fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 using a visual model and decimal notation.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Fraction equivalence applies to decimal fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.
  • Decimals can be decomposed and described using place value understanding.
    Example: 0.13 as one-tenth and three-hundredths, or thirteen hundredths.

Vocabulary

  • Decimal notation
  • Decimal point
  • Place value
  • Tenths
  • Hundredths
  • Fraction
  • Equivalence
  • Visual model

MA19.4.19

Use visual models and reasoning to compare two decimals to hundredths (referring to the same whole), recording comparisons using symbols >, =, or <, and justifying the conclusions.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • a variety of strategies for comparing whole numbers and can record comparisons using symbols , or =.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use visual models and reasoning to compare two decimals to hundredths.
  • Record comparisons of two decimals to hundredths using symbols , or =, and justify the conclusion.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Comparison of decimals are valid only when they refer to the same whole.
  • Two decimals are equivalent if they represent the same area or name the same point on a number line.

Vocabulary

  • Visual model
  • Compare
  • Reasoning
  • Tenths
  • Hundredths
  • Decimal point
  • Place value

MA19.4.20

Interpret data in graphs (picture, bar, and line plots) to solve problems using numbers and operations.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • how toMeasure objects to the nearest half, quarter, and eighth of an inch.
  • Partition a number line to show halves, fourths, and eighths.
  • Interpret data displayed in graphs to solve problems related to the data set.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Interpret data in graphs (picture, bar, and line plots) to solve problems using numbers and operations.
  • Create a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8).
  • Interpret data in line plots to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions.

Note: Students need to mark the line plot in eighths to use equivalence with common denominators of eighths before adding or subtracting with data set.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data can be collected, organized and analyzed in data displays to generate and answer questions related to the context of the data.

Vocabulary

  • Interpret
  • Data
  • Picture graph
  • Bar graph
  • Line plot
  • Data set
  • Scale
  • Frequency
  • Key
  • Partition

MA19.4.20a

Create a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit ($\frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{8}$).

MA19.4.21

Select and use an appropriate unit of measurement for a given attribute (length, mass, liquid volume, time) within one system of units: metric - km, m, cm; kg, g, l, ml; customary - lb, oz; time - hr, min, sec.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • units of measures for given attributes vary in size and are related by multiplicative comparison.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Select and use appropriate units of measure for a given attribute.
  • Convert larger units of measure to smaller units of measure within the same measurement system.
  • Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There is an appropriate unit of customary measurement and metric measurement for a given attribute.
  • Multiplicative relationships exist between customary units of length, mass, liquid volume, and time.
  • Multiplicative relationships exist between metric units of length, mass, liquid volume.

Vocabulary

  • Appropriate unit of measure
  • Metric
  • Customary
  • Equivalent
  • Conversion table
  • Mass
  • Liquid volume
  • Kilometer
  • Meter
  • Centimeter
  • Kilogram
  • Gram
  • liter
  • Milliliter
  • Ounce
  • Pound
  • Hour
  • Minute
  • Two-column table

MA19.4.21a

Within one system of units, express measurements of a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table.

MA19.4.22

Use the four operations to solve measurement word problems with distance, intervals of time, liquid volume, mass of objects, and money.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relative sizes of units within one system of measurement.
  • Strategies to solve word problems involving the four operations.
  • Measurement units in the same system are multiplicatively related.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Solve measurement word problems
  • Involving distance, intervals of time, liquid volume, mass, and money.
  • Involving measurement conversion of larger units to a smaller unit.
  • Involving simple fractions or decimals.
  • Using diagrams to represent measurement quantities and solutions.

Note: Quantities and operations are limited to grade 4 standard expectations.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Relationships among units within a system of measurement are multiplicative comparisons.
  • The size of the unit of measurement and the number of units are inversely related.
  • Addition and subtraction of measurements require measurements in the same unit and that the common unit is maintained in the answer.

Vocabulary

  • Operations
  • Distance
  • Intervals of time
  • Liquid volume
  • Mass
  • Number line diagram
  • Measurement scale

MA19.4.22b

Solve measurement problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit.

MA19.4.22c

Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

MA19.4.23

Apply area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real-world and mathematical situations.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The relationship of area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
  • The relationship of three whole numbers in a multiplication or division equation.
  • How to distinguish between linear and area measures.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Apply area formula for rectangles given real-world situations.
  • Apply perimeter formula for rectangles given real-world situations.

Understanding

Students understand that:
Given real-world situations involving rectangles,
  • Area formula represents the region inside a rectangle and is used to calculate area, or calculate one missing dimension if one side length is known.
  • Perimeter formula represents the distance around the rectangle and is used to calculate the perimeter, or calculate one missing dimension if one side length is known.

Vocabulary

  • Area
  • Perimeter
  • Formula
  • Equation
  • Dimension
  • Length
  • Width

MA19.4.24

Identify an angle as a geometric shape formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Angles are geometric shapes formed when two rays share a common endpoint.
  • How to draw points, lines, line segments, and rays

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify an angle as two rays with a common endpoint.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • angles are geometric shapes made of two rays that are infinite in length and are measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays.

Vocabulary

  • Angle
  • Ray
  • Endpoint
  • Geometric shape
  • Vertex
  • Line
  • Point
  • Line segment

MA19.4.25

Use a protractor to measure angles in whole-number degrees and sketch angles of specified measure.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Measurable attributes of geometric shapes, specifically angle size.
  • Units of measurement, specifically one-degree angle (degrees).
  • An angle is measured by the number or iterations of one-degree angles that exactly cover the rotation of the angle.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Sketch angles given a specified measure.
  • Use appropriate tools to find angle measure.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • the rotation of an angle is measured by the number of one-degree angles that exactly cover the rotation of the angle.

Vocabulary

  • Protractor
  • Angle
  • Whole number
  • Degree
  • Center
  • Circle
  • Intersect
  • Arc
  • Point
  • Ray
  • One-degree angle
  • Vertex

MA19.4.26

Decompose an angle into non-overlapping parts to demonstrate that the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Angles are measured in degrees from 0 to 360.
  • Protractor orientation does not affect an angle measurement.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Decompose an angle into non-overlapping parts and demonstrate that the sum of the angle measure parts is the same as the measure of the whole angle.
  • Use addition and subtraction to find unknown angles on a diagram in real-world or mathematical problems.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The rotation of an angle is measured by the number of one-degree angles that exactly cover the rotation of the angle.
  • Angle measurement is additive of the non-overlapping parts of a decomposed angle.

Vocabulary

  • Decompose
  • Angle
  • Non-overlapping
  • Angle measure
  • Sum
  • Diagram
  • Adjacent
  • Compose
  • Degrees

MA19.4.26a

Solve addition and subtraction problems on a diagram to find unknown angles in real-world or mathematical problems.

MA19.4.27

Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines, and identify these in two-dimensional figures.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • defining characteristics of geometric figures, such as points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse).
  • Draw parallel and perpendicular lines.
  • Identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines in two-dimensional figures.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines are defining characteristics of two dimensional shapes.

Vocabulary

  • Point
  • Line
  • Line segment
  • Ray
  • Right angle
  • Acute angle
  • Obtuse angle
  • Perpendicular lines
  • Parallel lines
  • Two dimensional figure
  • Vertex
  • Angle measure

MA19.4.28

Identify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Two lines are parallel if they never intersect and are an equal distance apart.
  • Two lines are perpendicular if they are at right angles to each other.
  • A right triangle is a triangle that has one right angle.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines.
  • Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of angles of a specified size.
  • Identify right triangles.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • shapes are categorized based on attributes they possess in common such as angle size, side length, side relationships (parallel and perpendicular).

Vocabulary

  • Two-dimensional figure
  • Parallel lines
  • Perpendicular lines
  • Angle
  • Right triangle
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