Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.1A Grade 4 CPI 4

 

Standard: 4.1 - Number and Numerical Operations

 

Strand: A - Number Sense

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will understand the various uses of numbers.

·        Counting, measuring, labeling (e.g., numbers on baseball uniforms), locating (e.g., Room 235 is on the second floor)

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students keep a 24-hour diary recording all of the ways they use or see others use numbers. They pool all of these uses of numbers and classify them into categories that they design.

 

·        As part of a geography unit, students make a map of a fantasy island, using a Cartesian coordinate system to help describe the location of various places on the island. They use other numbers to describe geographical properties of the sites: elevation, longitude and latitude, population, and the like.

 

·        The students brainstorm ways to describe their math book in terms of numbers: its width, the number of pages, the publication date, a student-generated "quality rating" of the book, the area of the cover, and so on.