Unpacking a Standard: 4th Grade Math at a Public School in Tennessee, Units 10 & 11

1. Unit 10 Overview

1.1. What are the big ideas?

1.1.1. • Angle • Degrees • Endpoint • Line Segments • Right Angle • Acute Angle • Obtuse Angle • Ray • Lines • Protractor • Parallel lines • Perpendicular lines • Right triangle

1.2. What are the skills needed to acheive the standard?

1.2.1. ability to analyze geometric figures based on angle measurement, parallel and perpendicular lines, and symmetry.

1.3. Activities suggestions to ensure students are learning the knowledge and developing the skills identified:

1.3.1. Activity 1

1.3.2. Activity 2

2. Unit 11 Overview

2.1. What are the big ideas?

2.1.1. • Multiplicative Comparison • Algorithm

2.2. What are the skills needed to acheive the standard?

2.2.1. Students will focus on problem solving in order to demonstrate fluency with the standard algorithms in addition and subtraction. They demonstrate computational fluency with all problem types.

2.3. Activities suggestions to ensure students are learning the knowledge and developing the skills identified:

2.3.1. Activity 1

2.3.2. Activity 2

3. Why I picked it?

3.1. *I will likely be teaching these units next semester.