Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 4th Grade Mathematics
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All fourth grade students will demonstrate mathematics proficiency at grade level or
above grade level on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test.
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Patterns &
Algebraic
Reasoning
8/18%
Functions
4 test items
@ least half
will score __
Years as
Issue
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
1.2 50% 75% 07-08
Number Sense
10/22%
Place Value
4 test items
2.1 75% 100% 06-07,
07-08,
08-09
Interventions / Strategies:
The following research-based strategies have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of
students of each gender and race as well as those who are Special Needs or economically
challenged. Female students benefit from verbal interaction, descriptive narration, and
expressing emotional connections/experiences to the information. Male students benefit from
simple, analytic explanation, kinesthetic movement, and visual images to aid in retention of
information. According to Ruby Payne, economically challenged students, need to know the
“why” and “how” of a topic, before they can learn it. With those needs in mind, the following
interventions/strategies have been chosen:
1.2
Students will use a variety of problem-solving approaches to analyze, extend and create
patterns. Students will use function machines and “t-tables” to demonstrate “What is the
rule?” Students will solve simple open sentences involving operation on whole numbers (with
a variable, a +17=23)
2.1
Fourth grade teachers will provide instruction and direction in place value. They will provide
understanding on importance of place value up to six digits. The teacher will provide
association methods where students will be able to use prior knowledge and personal
experience to identify and understand place value. Students will use methods such as
writing numbers in expanded form. Allow the student to use manipulative objects to teach the
students place value and to provide a visual image. Using vertical lines on graphing paper,
students will be able to visualize columns and put a single digit in each column.
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