Mathematics, Grade 4

Unit 1: Number

Numbers to 10 000, standard algorithms for addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fractions and decimals.

• Reading and showing numbers to 10 000
• Expanded notation
• Comparing and ordering to 10 000

• Personal strategies for adding and subtracting
• Standard algorithms for adding and subtracting
• Estimating and solving addition and subtraction problems
• Properties of 0 and 1

• Mental strategies for multiplication facts
• The 9s pattern and relating to division
• Multiplying 2- and 3-digit numbers
• Estimating products
• Dividing to solve problems
• Estimating quotients and relating to multiplication

• Naming fractions of a whole or set
• Comparing and ordering fractions
• Same fraction, different wholes
• Decimals for tenths and hundredths
• Connecting decimals and fractions
• Adding and subtracting decimals
• Estimating decimal sums and differences

Unit 2: Patterns and Relations

Patterns in tables and charts, relationships in diagrams, and expressing and solving one-step equations with an unknown symbol.

• Finding patterns in tables and charts
• Building a pattern from a table
• Using table patterns to solve problems

• Carroll diagrams
• Venn diagrams
• Writing an equation with an unknown
• Solving one-step equations

Unit 3: Shape and Space

Reading time on analog and digital clocks, calendar dates, area of 2-D shapes, prisms, and line symmetry.

• Reading 12- and 24-hour clocks
• Reading and writing calendar dates

• Understanding area in square units
• Measuring and building area
• Solving problems with shapes and objects
• Rectangular and triangular prisms
• Identifying line symmetry
• Creating symmetry and drawing lines

Unit 4: Statistics and Probability

Many-to-one correspondence in graphs, and constructing and interpreting pictographs and bar graphs.

• Understanding many-to-one correspondence
• Pictographs and bar graphs