Math Overview
Miss Berndl's Fabulous Fours
Notebooks, Texts, Tools & In Class Resources
Web Sites on the Internet with Math Games
Additional
Sources
Numeration Measurement
Geometry Algebra
Data
Notebooks, Texts, Tools
& In Class Resources
In each student desk:
- Math Notebook
- Text: MathQuest4
- Workbook: Ontario Math Workbook 4 by Irwin
- MMM Duo-Tang - pre-printed number fact sheets for terms 1
& 2, MMNC - Mental Math Number Chains for term 3
- Problem Solving Duo-Tang - PS units: Term1 PWL, Term 2 WP
& MB, Term 3 POTW
- Calculator - with % button, to calculate test results, check
work, do complex word problems
- Ruler - 30 cm long, indicating cm and mm
- Protractor - in order to read angles in term 2
Resources in the Classroom:
- Text: Journeys in Math 4
- Text: Interactions 4
- Centicubes
- Geometric solids
- Tangrams
- Pentagonals
- Battleship
Number Sense & Numeration
 | immediate recall of 9 times table (& division facts), decimals,
fractions, word problems
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| Rounding numbers / estimating
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| Adding & Subtracting 4 digit numbers |
| Multiplying 3 digit by 1 digit numbers |
| Dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit with remainders |
| Fractions & Decimals |
| Click here for more details on Number
Sense & Numeration |
Knowledge of measurement units for
| time |
| money |
| linear measurement - length, perimeter |
| area |
| volume |
| mass |
| Click here for more details on Measurement |
| 2-D shapes - figures |
| 3-D skeletons & solid objects |
| similar & congruent figures |
| patterns |
| angles, using a protractor |
| translation, reflection, rotation |
| grid coordinates, similar & congruent shapes |
| Click here for more details on Geometry
& Spatial Sense |
| mathematical patterns used in problem-solving situations |
| PWL - Playing With Logic |
| WP - Word Problems |
| MB - Mind Benders |
| POTW - Problem Of The Week |
| Click here for more details on Patterning
& Algebra |
Data Management & Probability
| survey |
| tally chart, bar graph, pictograph |
| more probable, equally
probable, less probable |
| Click here for more details on Data
Management & Probability |
Some Good Web Sites for Kids to learn math by playing GAMES!!!
- A+ Math A site developed to
help student improve their math skills interactively.
- Amazing Math Mania
Theme Park - ThinkQuest game site
- Aunty Math
Bi-weekly math challenges in story form.
 | created by a math specialist (elementary teacher) in the USA, weekly
math challenges |
Brain Teasers
Produced by Houghton Mifflin, this site has weekly brain teasers.
Cryptarithms
This site lets you do brain teasers where you substitute numbers for
letters to "solve" equations. The cryptarithms are displayed on
the left side of the screen & the program lets you try to solve them.
Cyberchase
| sponsored by The National Science Foundation & PBS, has games as
well as activities that can be printed off by students & parents who
want to do other math activities |
Enchanted Mind Puzzles
http://www.enchantedmind.com/html/puzzles/interactive_puzzles/creative_java_puzzles.html
Hungry for Math
- starved for information on fractions? - ThinkQuest game site
Math
| maintained by a school librarian, great site as a jumping off spot for
many kid-friendly math sites that have challenges, math games, family
math activities, and more |
Math and Mr. Sport
- ThinkQuest game site
Math Magic and Lively
Limericks - ThinkQuest game site
Math Republic -
ThinkQuest game site
Math Wizard -
ThinkQuest game site
mathforum.org -
This site has a section for elementary students with problems, puzzles,
weekly challenges and a way to connect with other kids who like math.
Nuts About Geometry
- ThinkQuest game site
The Math File Game
Show
| maintained by the BBC, has games developing math skills in Numeration,
Data Handling, Shapes Space & Measure, Algebra |
Tristan & Bob's
Fifth Grade Math Quizzes - ThinkQuest game site
Two Minute Mystery
Writing Club
Word
Problems For Kids
| made possible with funding by Canada's SchoolNet, word problems are
for grades 5 to 12 |
This is what my husband thinks I look like when I
give math tests! E2B2
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