Opening+Routines

** First week ideas for CCPS Mathematics Grade 4 ** __**Daily fluency –**__ Start your math block with a 2-3 minute fluency practice. This would be a quick activity that includes approximately 20 problems of fast computation that the students already know and will need to build on in 4th grade. Practice could include: basic facts, skip counting by tens and hundreds starting any number, identifying shapes, naming fractions, telling time, comparing whole numbers, expanded form, adding 10s and multiples of 10, naming the value of a digit.
 * Jump Start **
 * __ Opening Routines __**

__**Counting routines with a twist –**__ Adapted from __Number Sense Routines-__ Jessica Shumway Have students count by halves starting at 0/2 (0/2, 1/2, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, 5/2, 6/2…). They can toss a ball, point, or stand in a circle to determine who says the next number. Students will count until they are signaled to stop (you turn out the lights, stop music, ring a bell, or say stop). When they stop have the students all write down the number that was said last. Then have the students represent the number on the number line. Have a child verbally explain to you how to draw the number line on the board. Discuss if the number line is accurate and how you know. Or, have the students do one of the following with the last number that was said: - write an equivalent fraction - write the equivalent mixed number – decompose into unit fractions - draw a model to represent When students demonstrate proficiency, utilize the same process counting by other fractions.

__**3 important numbers about me-**__ Have students write 3 numbers that are special to them and explain why on a paper, have them write their names on the back. They could draw pictures and write sentences. Students may share their papers in small groups, or a few could be shared each day of the first week with the whole class. Students can guess who created the paper. Through discussions of similarities and differences, a math community is beginning to be established.

__**Subtilizing at fourth grade level –**__ Give students a quick view of an amount represented visually (with base 10 blocks, digi blocks, multiple 10 frames, fraction models…) have them tell you the amount they saw and how they know. Show them the same image again and let them see if they were correct.

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__** Literature connections **–__
 * Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream ** by Cindy Neuschwander
 * Pezzettino ** by Leo Lionni is a great introduction to the concept of area as how many small squares cover a surface. In this book, small squares are used to create the characters. Resources from [|www.mathwire.com]
 * 365 Penguins ** by [|Jean-Luc Fromental] The family in this book receives a penguin in the mail each day and these penguins quickly add up to take over the house and their lives. The book already contains measurement calculations, but the book also lends itself to some problem solving possibilities. After enjoying the book, continue with some of these problem solving activities, created by Mathwire.com

__** Number talks **__

__** Games to introduce: **__ Students deal out the entire deck. Then they both put down a card at the same time and whoever calls the product first takes the cards and adds them to the bottom of their pile. Students continue play until 1 player runs out of cards or time is out. Player with the most cards at the end wins. Deal 5 cards to each player and place the rest of the cards in a “pond.” Players are trying to get 24 by adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing cards in their hands. They can use 2- 4 cards. Player 1 asks any other player for a specific card that will help them get 24. If they player they ask has the card they must give it to them and player 1 gets to go again. If the player they ask doesn’t have the card they say go fish and player 1 draws a card from the “pond”. A player may lay down their numbers that equal 24 and say the equation on their turn. First player to get rid of all his or her cards wins. Need – Egg Cartoon with numbers 2-10 (write 6, 7 and 8 two times) written in the egg spaces, 2 pebbles, 2 or more players. Students take turns placing pebbles in the cartoon. Close the egg carton and shake it, then open the cartoon and multiply the two numbers that the pebbles landed on. They could keep track of their products and add them up, the first player to 500 wins.
 * Multiplication War-** For 2 students and a deck of playing cards with face cards removed
 * 24 Go Fish -** Need 2- 6 players and a deck of cards with face cards removed.
 * Egg Cartoon Multiplication –**
 * Explore manipulative/technology available**