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Minnesota Standards

Minnesota 4th Grade Math Standards

All 40 Minnesota math standards for 4th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Minnesota Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

40 standards

Data and Probability

6 standards
4.1.1.1
Describe patterns in real data or in two related data sets that compare things, and ask meaningful questions that collected data can answer.
4.1.1.2
Gather and organize data for a question, look at how spread out it is, handle missing data or bias, and show it in different ways, including technology.
4.1.1.3
Make predictions from data and explain how the way data was gathered affects how far those predictions can be trusted.
4.1.1.4
Read charts like double bar graphs, timelines, line plots, tables and spreadsheets with a critical eye to back up a claim and solve real problems.
4.1.2.1
Label events with dice, coins, even or uneven spinners, or blocks in a bag as impossible, unlikely, equally likely, likely or certain.
4.1.2.2
Place chances on a number line from 0 for impossible to 1/2 for equally likely to 1 for certain, and estimate where likely and unlikely events fall.

Spatial Reasoning

12 standards
4.2.3.1
Sort angles as acute, right or obtuse by estimating, comparing them to a square corner and measuring.
4.2.3.2
Measure with a ruler to the closest sixteenth of an inch or the closest tenth of a centimeter.
4.2.3.3
Use a protractor to find how many degrees an angle measures.
4.2.3.4
Find the perimeter and area of flat shapes and label answers with the right units, like centimeters or square centimeters.
4.2.3.5
Find the area of shapes that can be split into rectangles, using dot or grid paper, and give answers in square units.
4.2.3.6
Explain why multiplying length by width gives a rectangle's area, and use A = l × w for rectangles with whole number sides.
4.2.3.7
Make change for amounts up to $20 using place value, writing dollars and cents with $ and ¢ correctly.
4.2.4.1
Draw parallel lines, perpendicular lines, rays, line segments, points and angles, and find each of them in two-dimensional shapes.
4.2.4.2
Draw triangles that are scalene, isosceles or equilateral by their sides and acute, right or obtuse by their angles.
4.2.4.3
Sort quadrilaterals like squares, rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids, parallelograms and kites into a hierarchy, seeing that a square has every feature of a rectangle.
4.2.4.4
Draw or build the front, top and side views of solid figures made of cubes and rectangular prisms, and describe each view.
4.2.4.5
Draw flat patterns that fold into a cube, and tell which patterns will fold into a cube and which will not.

Patterns and Relationships

22 standards
4.3.5.1
Explain that a digit is worth ten times as much as the same digit one place to its right, like the 3 in 300 versus 30.
4.3.5.2
Compare and put in order whole numbers up to 1,000,000 using place value and number lines, recording with >, = and <.
4.3.5.3
Estimate sums and differences of numbers up to 1,000,000 by rounding and place value, like 412,000 + 289,000 is about 700,000.
4.3.5.4
Estimate products and quotients of multi-digit numbers with rounding and place value to check whether answers make sense, like 48 × 21 is near 1,000.
4.3.5.5
Multiply any two numbers from 0 to 12 quickly and accurately with strategies built on grouping, ordering and breaking apart factors.
4.3.5.6
Use place value to explain what happens when a number is multiplied by 10, 100 or 1,000, like 45 × 100 = 4,500.
4.3.5.7
Multiply two-digit by two-digit numbers and one-digit by up to four-digit numbers by splitting them into parts, like 23 × 45, and explain with arrays and area models.
4.3.5.8
Solve division story problems with one-digit divisors and dividends into the thousands, using models, partial quotients, properties or repeated subtraction.
4.3.5.9
Solve multi-step story problems that add, subtract and multiply multi-digit whole numbers, and check answers make sense with estimates or technology.
4.3.5.10
Read, write and plot fractions and mixed numbers from 0 to 3 in halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths or twelfths, including wholes like 6/3.
4.3.5.11
Use models and words to explain why a fraction like 3/4 is the same as 3 × 1/4.
4.3.5.12
Use models to show why 2/3 = 4/6, with more, smaller parts covering the same amount, and use that idea to find equivalent fractions.
4.3.5.13
Compare and order fractions from 0 to 3 and explain with pictures, number lines, common numerators or denominators, or benchmarks like 1/2.
4.3.5.14
Connect decimals and fractions, read and write them in words, symbols and expanded form, and know 1/2 = 0.5, 1/4 = 0.25 and 3/4 = 0.75.
4.3.5.15
Compare and order decimals to the hundredths using place value, number lines, money or grids, and show equal decimals like 0.5 and 0.50.
4.3.5.16
Use models to find sums and differences of halves, fourths and eighths, with answers up to 2, like 3/4 + 5/8 = 11/8.
4.3.5.17
Use all four operations to make money choices about earning, spending, saving, borrowing and giving to charity.
4.3.6.1
Find unknowns in multi-digit multiplication and division equations by comparing the two sides, like 24 × 5 = 12 × ?, and decide if equations are true.
4.3.6.2
Use the distributive property to make and defend claims about multi-digit multiplication with true or false and open equations, like 6 × 23 = 6 × 20 + 6 × 3.
4.3.7.1
Write a rule linking a picture pattern's step number to its number of items, and use the rule to find the count for any step n.
4.3.7.2
Write rules in words for multiplying patterns to solve problems, and compare adding and multiplying patterns using tables, drawings and equations with an unknown.
4.3.7.3
Make a number or shape pattern from a given rule and explain features it shows that the rule does not state, like terms alternating odd and even.

The official Minnesota documents

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