Guided Math Lessons in Fourth Grade

<p><em>Guided Math Lessons in Fourth Grade</em> provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling <i>Guided Math in Action</i> this practical book offers 16 lessons taught in a round of three-concrete pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency word problems fractions and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems reason communicate their thinking model use tools use precise language and see structure and patterns. </p><p>Throughout the book you'll find tools templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book students can more work effectively in small guided math groups--and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways then the math begins to make sense!</p>