Math 4-5

Online resource for Math Focus 4 for students, parents and teachers. I’m still working on getting the password for the grade 5 online teachers resource. This is not the teacher’s guide but extra links for enrichment and practice.

http://www.nelson.com/mathfocus/grade4/teacher/

Grade 4 teacher’s guide  (also has copy of student text):

http://www.nelson.com/nmf4otr/

username: generic4, password: password1

Grade 5 teacher’s guide (also has a copy of student text):

http://school.nelson.com/mathfocus/grade5/otr/default.html

username: generic5  password: password1

We will be using a free software called Jing to publish tutorials on each of the concepts covered for the week. Please look for the weblinks to these screencasts in the weekly posts.

To find online files for downloading (including teacher’s guides for both grades and student texts:

http://www.box.net/shared/7mfktn4r35

Download this folder to try a free math game.   mathgame

NEW THIS TERM!

LINK TO GRADE 4 WORKBOOK ANSWER KEY:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/bohednbvz2.pdf

LINK TO GRADE 5 WORKBOOK ANSWER KEY:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/7n1fmszach.pdf

Math 4/5 Term 3 topic overview:

Term 3 Math 4/5 Topic Timeline

Class Dates	Math4	Math5
Mar 23-26 Measurement review Chap 8 Chapter 8 review and reinforcement. Quiz on Chapter 8.	Measurement review Chap 8 Chapter 8 review and reinforcement. Quiz on Chapter 8.	Measurement review Chap 8 Chapter 8 review and reinforcement. Quiz on Chapter 8.
Chapter 9 Mar30-Apr2 Chapter 9 mid chapter review quiz and reinforcement.	Chap 9 lessons1-5 on multiplying using 10s and 100s, estimating products, multiplying using expanded form	Chap.9 lessons 1-5 on division fact strategies, dividing by halving, estimating quotients.
Apr6-9 Chap 9 chapter review and reinforcement	Chap 9 Lessons 6-10 on multiplying 3-digit numbers, multiplication problems, ways of multiplying.	Chap 9 lessons 6-10 on using subtraction to divide, remainders, remainders as decimals
Apr13-16 mid-chapter review quiz and reinforcement	Chap.10 lessons 1-4 on division and multiplication, using subtraction to divide, division by renaming	Chap. 11 lessons 1-3 on vertical and horizontal lines and faces, matching nets with 3-D objects
Apr 20-23chapter review quiz	Chap 10 lessons 5-7on estimation quotients, dividing by sharing, remainders, solving problems by guessing and testing	Chap. 11 lessons 4-5 on sorting quadrilaterals, solving problems by drawing diagrams and chapter review
Apr27-30	Review and reinforce Chap 8, 9 and 10	Review and reinforce Chap 8,9 and 11
May4-7 final test on 3 chapters covered	Test Chap 8,9 and 10	Test Chap 8,9 and 11

N/B:

Grade 4 Students are expected to complete Chapter 11 and Grade 5 are expected to complete Chapter 10 during break from classes…these outcomes will not be assessed this year.

For those families using alternate materials to learn concepts, the following concepts will be covered in Term 3:

Grade 4:

Students will be able to:

• Explain the properties of 0 and 1 for multiplication and 1 for division.

· Demonstrates an understanding of division (1-digit by 2-digit0 to solve problems by using various strategies

· Reads and records time using digital and analog clocks, including 24 hour clocks

· Reads and records calendar dates in a variety of formats

· Determines and records area of regular and irregular 2-D shapes

· Demonstrates understanding of area by constructing different rectangles for a given area

· Describes and constructs rectangular and triangular prisms

· Demonstrates an understanding of line symmetry by identifying, creating, and drawing symmetrical 2-D shapes

Grade 5:

Students will be able to:

· Uses mental math strategies and number properties to answer multiplication and related division facts to 81.

· Demonstrates an understanding of division (3 digit by 1 digit) to solve problems

· Designs/constructs different rectangles given either perimeter or area or both, and draws conclusions

· Demonstrates understanding of relationship between mm and cm and mm and m units

· Demonstrates understanding of volume by measuring and recording volume (cm3 or m3)

· Demonstrates an understanding of volume

· Demonstrates an understanding of capacity by measuring and recording capacity (mL or L)

· Describes and provides examples of edges and faces of 3-D objects and sides of 2-D shapes

· Identifies/sorts quadrilaterals (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses) by attributes