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Features

  • The goal and its "I can" line, what to get ready and the words to use
  • A 45 minute lesson in five steps (warm up, teach with words to say, try it together, practice, exit ticket)
  • Questions to ask, and the mistakes students make and what to do about them
  • Ideas for students who need help or are ready for more
  • Each plan ends with the Animal Math worksheets, worksheet makers, tools and quiz for that lesson
  • Lessons: multiplication as comparison, times as many stories, times as many or how many more, factor pairs and rectangles, every factor pair, multiples, and prime and composite numbers
  • Lessons 3.1 (facts through 12 × 12) and 3.9 (common factors and the greatest common factor) are for the states that teach them in 4th grade

4th Grade Math CurriculumUnit 3

These are the lesson plans for Unit 3 of 15 in the 4th Grade Math Curriculum: 127 lessons in teaching order, week by week, each with a lesson plan and an exit ticket.

Also for this unit: exit tickets, pre-check, unit review and test. See the whole year

Resources for Each Lesson

Everything each lesson plan points to, with links. Sheet numbers count worksheets: a color pack prints each sheet again in black and white.

3.1 Facts through 12 × 12 ★

3.2 Multiplication as comparison

3.3 Times as many stories

3.4 Times as many or how many more?

3.5 Factor pairs and rectangles

3.6 All the factor pairs

3.7 Multiples

3.8 Prime and composite numbers

3.9 Common factors and the GCF ★

★ Taught in 4th grade in some states.

Skills Covered

  • Multiplication and division facts through 12 × 12
  • Multiplication as comparison: 30 is 6 times as many as 5
  • Times as many stories with strip diagrams
  • Times as many or how many more
  • Factor pairs from rectangles of squares
  • Every factor pair of a number to 100
  • Multiples, and prime and composite numbers
  • Common factors and the greatest common factor

How to Use This Pack

Nine lesson plans, one for each lesson of a 4th grade unit on times as many, factors and multiples, in teaching order, after an overview page that lays the unit out day by day: a pre-check, the nine lessons, a review and the unit test. Each plan fits on one page. It gives the goal, what to get ready, the words to use, the lesson in five steps with the words to say, questions to ask, common mistakes and what to do about them, and the Animal Math worksheets, makers, tools and quiz for the lesson.

In the Classroom

Print the unit, or just the day's page, and teach from it. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes: a 5 minute warm up, 10 minutes of teaching, 10 minutes together, 15 minutes of practice and an exit ticket at the end. Keep square tiles, cubes and multiplication charts out all unit. The exit tickets and the unit test are separate packs, made for these lessons, and the plans use other numbers than they do. Lessons 3.1 (facts through 12 × 12) and 3.9 (the greatest common factor) are taught in 4th grade in some states, such as Virginia; skip them if yours does not.

At Home

Teaching at home? Use the warm up and the "Try it together" step as a short lesson, and the "Words to use" as the way to talk about it. Building rectangles from coins, crackers or blocks works as well as square tiles. The mistakes to watch for are the ones most children make.

Tips for Success

  • Read the "Watch for" box before the lesson: it is what to listen for while students work
  • Draw a strip diagram for every times as many story before solving it
  • Start every factor list with 1 and the number itself
  • Sort the exit tickets into got it, almost and not yet to plan the next day
  • Use the help and challenge ideas for small groups during practice

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 3.OA.C.7 Multiply and divide to 100 fluently with strategies, and by year's end instantly recall every product of two single-digit numbers.
  • 4.OA.A.1 Read a multiplication equation as a comparison (24 = 3 × 8: 24 is 3 times as many as 8) and write comparisons as equations.
  • 4.OA.A.2 Multiply or divide to solve story problems that compare amounts (times as many), using drawings and equations, and tell them apart from comparing by adding.
  • 4.OA.B.4 For numbers 1 to 100, list factor pairs, spot multiples of one-digit numbers, and sort numbers into prime and composite.

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4th Grade Factors and Multiples Lesson Plans

Lesson plans for every lesson of a unit on multiplication as comparison, factors and multiples, from times as many stories with strip diagrams to factor pairs, multiples and prime and composite numbers. Each one-page plan gives a lesson in five steps, common mistakes and the worksheets to use, after a unit overview.

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What’s Included

  • 9 one-page lesson plans, one for each lesson of the unit
  • A unit overview: the unit day by day, what to get ready, how each lesson goes
  • Words to say, questions to ask and common mistakes for every lesson
  • The worksheets, makers, tools and quiz for each lesson (10 pages in all)
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