Getting Ready for Grade 4 Math

Eight tutor-led hours that turn shaky Grade 3 skills into real Grade 4 confidence - times tables, fractions, decimals, and area - before school starts.

Who it's for: Students finishing Grade 3 and heading into Grade 4 this September, in small tutor-led groups of four, starting the year already fluent. Closes the jump: place value to 10 000, times tables to the full 1-to-10 table, decimal-tenths notation, and area moves from tiling to multiplying side lengths.

✓ Reads, compares, rounds, and represents whole numbers confidently up to 10 000, with instant recall of all multiplication and division facts from 1x1 to 10x10.✓ Multiplies two- and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number and divides using the area model, expressing a leftover as a remainder or fraction as needed.✓ Compares and orders fractions from halves to tenths using visual models, and reads, compares, and rounds decimal tenths, seeing that 3/10 and 0.3 are the same.✓ Finds the area of a rectangle by multiplying its side lengths, finds a missing side length when the area is known, and still measures perimeter confidently.✓ Extends a growing pattern using a table of values, solves and verifies a simple equation for an unknown number, and calculates mean, median, mode, and range.

The 8-lesson plan

Slides are what your tutor works from in the live lesson. The practice module is homework: do it before the next lesson.

1

Place Value to 10 000: Reading, Comparing, and Rounding Big Numbers

Extend confident three-digit place value into the thousands, comparing, ordering, and rounding numbers up to 10 000 with base ten blocks and a place value chart.

Slides Practice module
2

Multiplication Facts to 10x10 and the Area Model for Multi-Digit Multiplication

Build instant recall of every multiplication fact from 1x1 to 10x10 using known-fact strategies, then multiply two- and three-digit numbers by one digit with the area model.

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3

Dividing Two- and Three-Digit Numbers: Remainders as Whole Numbers and as Fractions

Use fact families and the area model to divide two- and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number, then interpret a leftover amount as a whole-number remainder or, for the first time, as a fraction.

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4

Comparing, Ordering, and Naming Equivalent Fractions from Halves to Tenths

Move beyond recognizing fraction families to comparing, ordering, and finding equivalent fractions from halves through tenths using fraction strips and number lines.

Slides Practice module
5

Decimal Tenths: Reading, Comparing, Rounding, and Connecting to Fractions

Introduce decimal tenths as a brand-new notation for the same fraction-of-ten ideas from Lesson 4, then compare, order, and round decimal tenths with confidence.

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6

Area and Perimeter of Rectangles: From Counting Squares to the Multiplication Formula

Build the area formula (length times width) directly from the row-and-column array structure students already covered shapes with, review the perimeter formula, and solve for a missing side length.

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7

Growing Patterns, Tables of Values, and Solving for an Unknown Number

Extend repeating-pattern thinking into growing patterns tracked in a table of values, then use a symbol for an unknown number to solve and verify simple equations.

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8

Mean, Median, Mode, Graphs, and the Language of Probability

Add median to the mean and mode toolkit, read and build graphs with a proper scale, and describe the likelihood of an event using the probability line, closing the course ready for Grade 4.

Slides Practice module
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