This year in math your child will expand the math learning that they have experienced so far in their school career. Some concepts like place value will pick up where your child left off in previous grades. And some concepts like decimals will be completely new.
In fourth grade at JBE students will be required to show their mathematical thinking by showing their work on their papers. However, we will also begin to explore when mental math is a perfectly acceptable strategy. Even in cases when mental math can be used students will begin to make decision about the strategies that go best with the way that they learn. Some of use need to write everything down and some of us are the types of learning that can just write down a few notes.
Each week the Newsletter on the homepage will detail the standards that we will cover in class that week. On the Math Strategies page you will find the standards that we have covered in class and students should have in their journals. When new concepts are covered I will show students the strategies that I have become familiar with in my many years of teaching. Once all of the standards have been introduced in class, students are allowed to choose the strategies that work best for their mathematical thinking.
I believe that there is no such thing as some people are math people and some people aren't. Everyone is a math person. No matter what direction you go in life we will all have to perform math tasks for the rest of our lives..
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