What will Fourth Graders learn this quarter?
Our Focus: Place Value
Sept. 2010-Oct.2010
What questions do we ask ourselves?
How are place value patterns
repeated in large numbers?
How do we write numbers less than
one million?
How do we identify numbers more
than one hundred?
Quarter 1
Why are we learning this?
9 To read and write numbers less
than one million and more than
one hundred
9 To use place value through millions
9 To model and identify place value
of each digit in whole numbers
How will we learn these things?
9 By using place value mats through millions
9 By modeling, brainstorming and identifying
place value of each digit in whole
numbers
9 By drawing a diagram or picture
9 By finding a pattern, making a table
9 Predict and Test
9 By explaining our thoughts through writing
Vocabulary Words:
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Place value
Digit
Numeral
Value
period
Pattern
Standard notation
Expanded notation
one
ten
hundred
thousand
million
hundredths
Word Form
Understand
plan
solve
check
What resources will we use?
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Place value mat
Base ten blocks
Math textbooks
Math centers
geoboard
Math journals
Manipulatives
Computer
Math Picture books
Place value concentration cards
Good mathematicians have more choices!
Developed by: VMES fourth grade team, 2010