Regina Public Schools
Regina Public Schools
Teaching Grade 3/4 Math with New Curriculum
“Comparison of Curriculum Content”
Grade 3 / Grade 4Number / Number
Numbers to 1000 (compare, order, estimate, represent, describe, place value) / Numbers to 10 000 (compare, order, estimate, represent, describe, place value)
Add with answers to 1000 (corresponding subtraction facts) (1, 2, and 3-digit numerals); estimating sums and differences / Add/subtract (3- and 4-digit numerals); estimating sums and differences
Strategies for addition and subtraction with answers to 1000; mental math strategies for basic facts; strategies for adding 2-digit numbers (such as adding from left to right, using nearest multiples of 5/10, using doubles); strategies for subtracting 2-digit numbers (such as using the nearest multiple of 10 for the subtrahend, thinking of addition, using doubles) / Personal strategies
Multiplication to 5 x 5 (corresponding division facts) using repeated addition/subtraction, equal groupings, and arrays (concretely, physically, and visual representations – record the process symbolically) / Multiplication: 2- and 3-digits by 1-digit (using arrays, personal strategies, estimating)
Division: 2-digits by 1-digit (using personal strategies, estimating, relating division to multiplication)
Multiplication and division strategies for facts up to 10 x 10 such as: skip counting from a known fact; doubling/halving; doubling/halving and adding/subtracting one more group; patterns in the 9s facts; repeated doubling, distributive property
Fractions (concretely, pictorially, physically, and orally) / Fractions (less than or equal to 1) using concrete and pictorial representation, parts of a whole or a set, understanding identical fractions may not represent same quantity
Decimals: tenths/hundredths (pictorially, orally, in writing, symbolically)
Add/subtract hundredths (concretely, pictorially, symbolically)
Patterns and Relations / Patterns and Relations
Increasing and decreasing patterns / Patterns: patterns and mathematical relationships (charts, tables, diagrams, using maniulatives)
Equality (solving one-step addition/subtraction equations involving symbols for an unknown quantity) / Equality (solving one-step equations involving symbols to represent an unknown value)
Shape and Space / Shape and Space
Passage of time (standard and non-standard units) / Time: reading all clocks and calendar dates
Measurement of mass in g and kg and linear measurement (length, width, height, perimeter) in cm and m - using referents, estimating, measuring and recording / Area (cm², m²) – using referents, estimating, constructing different rectangles for a given area
Understand 3-D objects by analyzing characteristics including faces, edges, and vertices / Compare, construct and identify common attributes for 3-D objects (rectangular and triangular prisms)
Describe, compare, and sort 2-D shapes (regular and irregular) including triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons
Line symmetry – identify, create, draw
Statistics and Probability / Statistics and Probability
First-hand data, tally marks, charts, lists, bar graphs and line plots / Bar graphs, pictographs, many-to-one correspondence
LJDH/2011