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Content Area: Math
Index: 4.4C Grade 4 CPI 1
Standard: 4.4 - Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics
Strand: C - Mathematics--Systematic Listing and Counting
Cumulative Progress Indicator:1 - The student will represent and classify data according to attributes, such as shape or color, and relationships · Venn diagrams · Numerical and alphabetical order
Grade: 4
Sample Activities:
· Students are provided with a set of index cards on each of which is written a word (or a number). Working in groups, students put the cards in alphabetical (or numerical) order, explain the methods they used to do this, and then compare the various methods that were used.
· Students bring to class names of cities and their zip codes where their relatives and friends live, paste these at the appropriate locations on a map of the United States, and look for patterns which might explain how zip codes are assigned. Then they compare their conclusions with post office information to see whether they are consistent with the way that zip codes actually are assigned.
· Students send and decode messages in which each letter has been replaced by the letter which follows it in the alphabet (or occurs two letters later). Students explore other coding systems described in Let's Investigate Codes and Sequences by Marion Smoothey.
· Students collect information about the soft drinks they prefer and discuss various ways of presenting the resulting information, such as tables, bar graphs, and pie charts, displayed both on paper and on a computer.
· Students play the game of Set in which participants try to identify three cards from those on display which, for each of four attributes (number, shape, color, and shading), all share the attribute or are all different. Similar ideas can be explored using Tabletop, Jr. software
· Additional Framework Activities
Kidspiration Activity:
· Use the Venn SuperGrouper to create sorting and classifying activities. |
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