Working toward the goals of the Essential Learnings in mathematics, each fourth grader will understand concepts and apply procedures in the following areas:

 Number Sense:

• Understands whole numbers and fractions and place value.
• Understands and applies concepts of comparing, sequencing and ordering.
• Understands addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations at the concrete level.
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides whole numbers.
• Selects and uses tools appropriately.
• Understands estimation can sometimes be helpful.
• Uses estimations to predict computation.
• Uses estimates to determine reasonableness of answers.

Measurement:

• Uses measurable traits to describe and compare objects.
• Understands that measurement is approximate.
• Uses estimates to predict and determine reasonableness of measurements.
• Understands the benefits of using standard units of measurement.
• Understands the appropriate units and uses appropriate tools for measuring time, money, length, area, volume, mass, and temperature. 

Spatial Sense:

• Identifies, names and sorts geometric shapes by characteristics.
• Understands how geometric shapes and objects in the real world are related.
• Describes the relative location of objects to each other.
• Understands concepts of parallel, perpendicular, symmetry, congruence, and similarity.
• Understands and builds simple geometric shapes using slides, flips, turns and other appropriate tools.

Probability and Statistics:

• Recognizes difference between certain and uncertain events.
• Lists all possible outcomes of simple experiments.
• Understands and uses experiments to investigate uncertain events.
• Understands how to systematically collect data.
• Organizes and displays data in numerical and graphical forms.
• Understands and uses different measures of central tendency in describing a set of data.
• Understands and makes simple inferences based results of experiments.
• Predicts outcomes of simple activities and compares the predictions to results of experiments.

Functions & Relationships:

• Recognizes, creates and extends patterns of objects and numbers.
• Uses guess and check in the search for patterns.
• Represents number patterns symbolically.
• Uses standard notation to read and write number sentences.
• Solves simple equations at the concrete level