One page to give on the first day of the unit on expressions and equations, before any teaching. Its six questions are on the 4th grade and earlier skills the unit builds on: products and quotients, a missing number in an equation, multiplying and dividing by a 1-digit number, "times as many", missing numbers with the properties, and a two-step story written as an equation with a letter. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.
Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: a student who trips on the products and quotients needs that practice beside the order of operations, and one who misses the missing numbers needs work on the link between adding and subtracting, and multiplying and dividing, before the lessons on variables. A low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.
Use it to see what your child needs before the unit starts: practice products like 11 × 8 and 14 × 5 aloud, and make up two-step stories from everyday shopping.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A check to give before the unit on the order of operations, expressions and equations, on the skills it builds on. Students multiply and divide, find missing numbers, compare with "times as many", use the properties and solve a two-step story with a letter.
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