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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


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