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Georgia Standards

Georgia 4th Grade Math Standards

All 38 Georgia math standards for 4th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Georgia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

38 standards

Mathematical Practices

8 standards
4.MP.1
Make sense of multi-step problems and keep working through them, like planning the steps for a fraction word problem and checking each part.
4.MP.2
Move between a context and its numbers, like writing 3 × 125 for three boxes of 125 pencils and explaining what the product means.
4.MP.3
Justify answers with clear reasoning and evaluate others' arguments, like proving 3/4 is greater than 5/8 and finding the error in a classmate's division.
4.MP.4
Model real situations with math, like an area model for buying 23 packs of 14 cards or a dot plot of measurement data.
4.MP.5
Choose tools wisely, like a protractor for angles, a metric ruler for lengths, or estimation to check whether a large product is reasonable.
4.MP.6
Work precisely, like measuring angles to the nearest degree, labeling units such as grams and liters, and using place value names correctly.
4.MP.7
Use structure in math, like breaking 4 × 236 into 4 × 200, 4 × 30 and 4 × 6, or seeing that 3/4 is 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4.
4.MP.8
Notice repeated calculations and generalize, like seeing that multiplying the top and bottom of a fraction by the same number always keeps its value.

Numerical Reasoning

18 standards
4.NR.1.1
Read and write whole numbers up to the hundred thousands as numerals and in expanded form, like 482,307 = 400,000 + 80,000 + 2,000 + 300 + 7.
4.NR.1.2
Show that each digit is worth ten times what it would be one place to the right, and find its new value when it moves left or right, like 70 to 700.
4.NR.1.3
Use place value to show, compare and order multi-digit numbers, recording comparisons with symbols, like 305,821 > 305,812.
4.NR.1.4
Round multi-digit whole numbers to any place using place value, like 46,382 to 46,000 or 50,000.
4.NR.2.1
Add and subtract multi-digit numbers quickly and accurately to solve problems, using place value, properties and how addition and subtraction relate.
4.NR.2.2
Explain, model and solve comparison problems with multiplication, like a tree that is 4 times as tall as a 6-foot fence.
4.NR.2.3
Multiply up to a four-digit number by a one-digit number, or two two-digit numbers, with place value strategies, showing work with equations, arrays or area models.
4.NR.2.4
Solve real division problems with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, including remainders, using place value, properties and links to multiplication.
4.NR.2.5
Solve multi-step word problems with all four operations on whole numbers, and use mental math and estimates to check that answers are reasonable.
4.NR.4.1
Show with models and number lines why fractions like 2/3 and 4/6 are equal, including fractions over 1, and make new ones by multiplying by a form of 1, like 2/2.
4.NR.4.2
Compare two fractions with the same numerator or denominator by reasoning about part size, knowing comparisons only work when both refer to the same whole.
4.NR.4.3
Compare fractions with different numerators or denominators using tools and strategies like benchmarks or common denominators, for fractions of the same whole.
4.NR.4.4
Write whole numbers and fractions as sums of unit fractions, like 3/5 = 1/5 + 1/5 + 1/5 or 2 = 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2.
4.NR.4.5
Break a fraction into a sum of same-denominator fractions in more than one way and record each with an equation, like 5/8 = 1/8 + 4/8 = 2/8 + 3/8.
4.NR.4.6
Find sums and differences of fractions and mixed numbers with the same denominator using models like fraction strips, like 1 3/4 + 2 1/4 = 4.
4.NR.5.1
Show with models why tenths and hundredths can be equivalent, like 3/10 = 30/100, and add a tenths fraction to a hundredths fraction, like 3/10 + 4/100.
4.NR.5.2
Write fractions with denominators of 10 or 100 as decimals and decimals to hundredths as fractions, using models and drawings, like 0.62 = 62/100.
4.NR.5.3
Compare two decimals to the hundredths by reasoning about their size, record the result with a symbol, and explain why, like 0.5 > 0.45.

Patterning & Algebraic Reasoning

4 standards
4.PAR.3.1
Make number and shape patterns that follow a given rule, like start at 3 and add 4 each time.
4.PAR.3.2
Describe and extend patterns with in-and-out tables, charts and rules, like a times 3 rule turning 4 into 12, and use them to solve problems.
4.PAR.3.3
List all factor pairs for numbers from 1 to 100, like 1 and 24, 2 and 12, 3 and 8, 4 and 6, and list multiples of one-digit numbers up to 100.
4.PAR.3.4
Tell whether a number is prime or composite and explain how its factor pairs show it, like 13 having only 1 × 13.

Measurement & Data Reasoning

3 standards
4.MDR.6.1
Use all four operations on problems about elapsed time and metric length, volume and mass, including like-denominator fractions and unit changes like 2 m = 200 cm.
4.MDR.6.2
Investigate everyday questions by collecting information and reading graphs and data displays to answer them, like comparing class survey results.
4.MDR.6.3
Make dot plots that show how a set of measurement data is spread out, like the lengths of classroom pencils in centimeters.

Geometric & Spatial Reasoning

5 standards
4.GSR.7.1
Recognize an angle as two rays sharing an endpoint and draw right, acute and obtuse angles by comparing them to 90 degrees.
4.GSR.7.2
Measure angles as parts of a circle centered where two rays meet, and find an angle's size from the circle's 360 degrees by dividing or finding a missing factor.
4.GSR.8.1
Explore and draw points, lines, segments, rays, right, acute and obtuse angles, perpendicular and parallel lines and lines of symmetry, and find them in flat shapes.
4.GSR.8.2
Sort and compare polygons by symmetry lines, parallel or perpendicular sides, angle types and side lengths, like grouping shapes with a right angle.
4.GSR.8.3
Find the area and perimeter of shapes made of rectangles with known whole-number side lengths to solve problems, like an L-shaped room.

The official Georgia documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Georgia's standards, not the official wording, which Georgia Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.