Fourth Grade

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

This product contains two math games requiring the students to match numbers in standard form to word form and vice versa. This is aligned to Common Core

My kids love Place Value Yahtzee! Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets. Great for grades 2-6!

Geometry is one of those wonderful math subjects that can be so much fun to teach!! It lends itself to engaging HANDS-ON and UP-AND-OUT-OF-YOUR-SEAT lessons!! These are some of my favorite lessons for teaching geometry!!

Sharpen math skills while playing with dominoes! Students love this idea!! You will find 10 math games that can be played with dominoes to sharpen 4th and 5th

Each of the bingo cards had a fraction like 5/15 and then I called out the reduced fraction, like 1/3. You could have heard a pin drop in that room, the kids were focusing so hard. No complaints here ;)

Several years ago, I invented my rounding snowball fight game and every year since my students beg to play it. They say it is the BEST game ever!

Check out this post for 15 free math games for grade 3 and up! Make multiplication, division, and fractions FUN!

Guided Math for Fourth Grade is composed of 15 units divide into four quarters. The units range anywhere from 1 week long to 4 weeks long, depending on the standard(s) being covered. There are 8 weeks of lesson plans for each quarter. (If you work in a traditional school, this will leave you one week for review or test prep each quarter. You can also use that extra week as a buffer week because we all know interruptions happen that get you off track.) Check out the year at a glance below.

Here is a list of all of the math skills students learn in fourth grade! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to view a sample question. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!

Here's another cool math trick to teach your kids! Get them to try it with lots of different numbers to sneak in some extra math practice, whilst amazing them that the answer is always 2!

You every think about how much a word is worth? My students were constantly thinking about the price of words. One of the things they may do when they finish their assignment or center is to find Dollar Words.

An upper elementary teaching blog focusing on exciting, constructivist math and language arts teaching. Creative ideas, resources, and inspiration!

From fractions to measurement, these card games have everything you need to help your fourth grader dodge the summer slide.

Want a fun, no-prep multiplication facts game to use in your math centers tomorrow? Read about how we've "mathified" the popular squares game to practice multiplication facts!

My 9-year-old son is a whiz at math facts. He's had them all down since before he started fourth grade. But fractions can be tough.