1. Welcome to 4th Grade Math!
How can I help my child at home be more successful for school?

2. Want to Stop Fighting Homework Battles?
1)-Set a consistent time and place to work Monday- Thursday
2)-Don’t compete with “favorites”
3)-Get your child off to a solid start by spending the first minutes with him/her and then back away and let them work by themselves
4)-Even if your child comes home and says, “I don’t have any homework tonight…” maintain the set time and place Monday-Thursday (write/type a letter to grandma, read a book/magazine, study spelling, work a puzzle, play an educational game)
5)- Follow up with reading to or with your child and questions

3. What Research Says about Helping Our Children at Home:
In a class of 20 students, few if any teachers can find even 5 minutes of time in a day to devote to reading individually with each student.
You are your child’s first teacher
Out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year.
Size of vocabulary predicts successful reading ability-an average 6 year old should know 5,000 words , an average 14 year old should know 25,000 words, and an average adult should know 60,000 words.
Today, a 6 year old on average knows 1,000 words, a 14 year old on average knows 10,000 words and an adult on average knows 25,000 words.

4. What Should 4th Graders Know?
Partial Product Multiplication
(Part of) (The answer to a multiplication problem)
Partial Quotient Division
(Part of) (The answer to a division problem)

5. Partial Product Using Models

6. But what about fractions??
Equivalent Fractions
Using Number lines and Cross Multiplication
Multiplying Fractions
Know Multiple Strategies

7. Word Problems with Constructed Response

8. Math Help at Home Emphasis now is WHY and not just HOW
Multiple ways to solve problems
Problem solving with real-world math
Pay bills
Estimate the cost of the groceries in your cart
Determine how much food to buy or make for a party
Double a recipe or cut a recipe in half
Figure the cost of lunch at a restaurant
Calculate the cost of school lunch for the week or month
Determine how long your child will need to save his allowance in order to buy a particular item
Determine the number of miles driven in X hours
Figure the cost of X number of minutes of cell phone use if you pay X cents/minutes
Determine how many gallons of gas you can buy with X dollars
Determine how many chocolate chips are needed if X number of cookies each has 3 chocolate chips