4NF1 - 4NF7 Vocabulary Center

This is vocabulary center that I created for my students to use as we covered the standard 4NF1 - 4NF7. There are various ways you could use it. I had my students rotate through it with a partner. They used their iPads to scan the QR codes to get the definitions, read them aloud, and placed the code behind the correct vocabulary word.  The link is below at TpT.


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Fraction-and-Decimal-Vocabulary-with-QR-Codes-Common-Core-4NF1-4NF7

4MD1 and Readers Response Notebook

This is an activity from my Measurement and Data Unit. It's a fun flip chart students make and use to help them with metric and customary conversions. I also began adding my graphic organizers to my readers response notebook. My students like using the organizer, cutting it out and adding it to their notebook versus just drawing a diagram.


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Measurement-and-Data-Assessment-Practice-or-Task-Cards-4MD1-4MD2

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Measurement-Worksheets-Activities-and-Center-Cards-4MD1-and-4MD2

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Common-Core-Literature-and-Informational-Text-Graphic-Organizers

4th Grade Common Core Vocabulary

This is my newest creation and it exposes students to many words they have learned through out the school year along with new words. Vocabulary is all about exposure and how many different ways students can learn about the words. These words are academic vocabulary from 4th grade Common Core ELA. Students are reviewing and learning new words by using their iPads and making flip charts. This is just one activity that is in the unit. The link below takes you to the product along with a freebie to try. I hope you can use it!

 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Common-Core-ELA-Vocabulary-Activities-and-Review


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Common-Core-ELA-Vocabulary-Activities-and-Review-Freebie

4NF5 - What I did to teach it...

Students need to be able to express a fraction with a denominator of 10  as an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 100 and use this technique to add fractions.

This is what I did...

Lesson 1  First we created equivalent fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 by shading in base 10 blocks. Students looked at the shapes and realized that they were different in parts but equaled the same amount and were the same size.

Ex...3/10 = 30/100

Lesson 2  We continued this process reversing it from 100 to 10 and students did use the base ten blocks if necessary. Students were asked how to explain this process and they used the models or drew pictures of the models to explain their thinking. I also used money for some students-dimes and pennies.

Lesson 3 Next we moved on to adding fractions of 10 and 100 by using base ten models to create equivalent fractions. I spent 2 days on this concept and also reviewed this in small group. I also used money to help with this concept. Students also practiced subtration as well.

Ex...3/10 + 4/100 = 30/100 + 4/100 = 34/100

3/10- 4/100 = 30/100 - 4/100 = 26/100

Lesson 4  Students then took their knowledge and applied it to solve problems that involved this skill.

Center Activities I also created a matching game that involved addition with deominators of 10 and 100 and I used that in small group and whole group. Students would get a card and they would need to find their partner. Once everyone found their partner they spoke about their answer and how they knew it was correct.

I also created a matching game that involved money with dimes and pennies so that students related the concept to something else besides base ten models.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Fraction-Worksheets-and-Center-Cards-Common-Core-4NF5

I hope this helps you!

4NF4 - What I did to teach it.

Students need to understand that fractions can be a multiple, how to multiply fractions, and solve word problem involving multiplication. This is the process I went through so that my students understood the standard. I listed the items in order as to what I taught.

Lesson 1 We decomposed frations and wrote them as multiplication expressions.

Ex: 2/5= 1/5 + 1/5...decompose the fraction first.  Ask the question...How many 5ths are there? Answer 2, therefore 2/5 is the same as 2 x 1/5.

Lesson 2 We wrote whole numbers as fractions and explained the concept of why it works with division. Students rewrote problems and then proceeded to multiply.

Ex. 3 x 1/4 = 3/1 x 1/4

3/1 is the same as 3 divided by 1 = 3

I showed models as well.

 Students solved several problems in which they rewrote the whole number as a fraction and multiplied to solve the equation.

Lesson 3 We created multiplication expressions to model multiples.

Ex: 2 x 3 = 6 x 1   therefore

2 x 3/4 = 6 x 1/4

Lesson 4 We created models of multiplication sentences.

Lesson 5 We practiced the multiplication algorithm.

Lesson 6 We practiced word problems.


Centers-I created flash cards with multiplication problems that students can solve. They also were required to create their own story problems using the cards and how to model the problems. They also created screen chomp videos that showed if they understood what they needed to do to solve these types of problems.
I will post my anchor posters when I have time. I hope this helps for those that are struggling with CCSS.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Fraction-Worksheets-and-Center-Cards-Common-Core-4NF4-a-b-and-c

4.NF.3 Math Posters and Reader's Response Notebook

These are some of the posters I'm using for CCSS 4NF4 and a poster that my students use to help them when they respond in their reader's response notebook. Everytime I introduce or review a part of the Reader's Response Notebook I create a poster and an anchor for students to refer to because they need that visual model as a guide. I have found that CCSS is much more detailed than just using an algorithm to solve a problem. It's about how the math works. My students had difficulty with decomposing mixed numbers to improper fractions not becuase they couldn't do it, but because they didn't understand why it worked and how to apply it in math situations. Hopefully I will have time to share the units I have created which have made my life so much easier in teaching math. There isn't much math CCSS out there.

Fraction Centers

These are the fraction centers that my students are using at this time. They are easy to assemble and students can use them right away.