GRADE 4 PRIME MATHS
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CONTENTS
1. List of Additional Materials required (including
manipulatives), by chapter
2. Recommended manipulatives
1. List of Additional Materials required (including manipulatives), by
chapter
Note: Minimum requirements are listed below e.g for counters, connecting cubes.
CHAPTER 1 10 Counters per student
Connecting cubes (15 blue and 40 red) per group
1 bag of 4 red connecting cubes and 4 blue connecting cubes per pair of
students
1 bag of 5 red connecting cubes and 3 blue connecting cubes per pair of
students
CHAPTER 2
1 paper cup per pair of students
10 x Two-color counters (red and yellow) per pair
Coloured pencils
CHAPTER 3
Place value disks
30 Counters per group
CHAPTER 4
7 square pieces of paper of the same size per group of students
CHAPTER 5
Counters (10 blue and 10 red) per pair
10 two-colour counters (red and yellow) per pair
CHAPTER 6
2 analog weighing scales (able to measure up to 4 and 6 kilograms, respectively)
Ten 100-gram masses
Objects of mass up to 4 kilograms
2 objects each of mass 3 kilograms
1-metre ruler
Coloured water
One 1-litre beaker
One 500-millilitre beaker
One 100-millilitre beaker
1 fifteen-centimeter ruler per pair
1 sheet of paper per pair
CHAPTER 6A
Measuring tape: 1 in feet and inches and 1 in centimetres and metres (or
combination on one measuring tape) - optional
CHAPTER 6B
Scale in ounces and pounds (optional)
CHAPTER 7
Not applicable
CHAPTER 8
1 protractor per student
CHAPTER 9
Fasteners: 1 for demonstration, 1 per student
Straws: 2 for demonstration, 2 per student
CHAPTER 10
One 1-litre beaker
One 100-millilitre beaker
Coloured water
Counters
CHAPTER 11
Place value disks
Counters
CHAPTER 12
1 string per student
1 geoboard per group (square pin array)
3 rubber bands per group
10 craft sticks per student
CHAPTER 13
Rectangular prisms: 1 for demonstration, 1 per group of students
Triangular prisms: 1 for demonstration, 1 per group of students
Modelling clay: 1 slab for demonstration, 1 slab per group of students
Sets of pyramids (triangular pyramid, rectangular pyramid, square pyramid): 1
set for demonstration, 1 set per group of students
CHAPTER 14
Counters - lots (enough to mark out the perimeter of a desk - per student)
1 metre ruler per group
1 pair of scissors per group
1 piece of coloured paper per group
1 roll of sticky tape per group
A few sheets of newspaper per group
CHAPTER 15
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
1 paper fastener
1 piece of cardboard
1 sheet of paper per student
1 stopwatch per group
Place Value Cards
Place Value Chart Grade 4
2. Recommended manipulatives
Counters
2-colour counters
Connecting cubes
Craft sticks (or lolly sticks or counting sticks)
Analogue Scale (although the Teacher’s book uses a 4kg scale and a 6kg scale, you can use your 5kg scale
from Grade 3’s manipulatives PLUS a bigger or smaller analogue scale with it, to compare against)
Graduated beaker set (including 100ml, 500ml, 1000ml. If the beakers are made of a material that can be
heated, they can be used for science too)
3D-Geometric solids (including triangular and rectangular prisms)
Geoboard with elastics (square pin array)
Place value discs
Place value chart Grade 4 (optional)
Place value cards (optional)