2021

Eureka Math²

Publisher
Great Minds
Subject
Math
Grades
K-8
Report Release
03/29/2023
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Eureka Math Squared Grade 4 Learn & Apply Bundle: Fractional Units Modules 1-6  978-1-64929-021-2  Great Minds 2021
Eureka Math Squared Grade 4 Learn Set: Fractional Units Modules 1-6  978-1-64929-027-4  Great Minds 2021
Eureka Math Squared Grade 4 Teacher Edition Set: Fractional Units Modules 1-6  978-1-64929-040-3  Great Minds 2021
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Report for 4th Grade

Alignment Summary

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for Alignment to the CCSSM. In Gateway 1, the materials meet expectations for focus and coherence. In Gateway 2, the materials meet expectations for rigor and meet expectations for practice-content connections.

4th Grade
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Overview of Gateway 1

Focus & Coherence

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for focus and coherence. For focus, the materials assess grade-level content and provide all students extensive work with grade-level problems to meet the full intent of grade-level standards. For coherence, the materials are coherent and consistent with the CCSSM.

Criterion 1.1: Focus

06/06

Materials assess grade-level content and give all students extensive work with grade-level problems to meet the full intent of grade-level standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for focus as they assess grade-level content and provide all students extensive work with grade-level problems to meet the full intent of grade-level standards.

Indicator 1A
02/02

Materials assess the grade-level content and, if applicable, content from earlier grades.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for assessing grade-level content and, if applicable, content from earlier grades.

The Assessment System includes lesson-embedded Exit Tickets, Topic Quizzes, and Module Assessments. According to the Implementation Guide, “Exit Tickets are not graded. They are paper based so that you can quickly review and sort them. Typical Topic Quizzes consist of 4-6 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts from the topic. You may find it useful to grade Topic Quizzes. Typical Module Assessments consist of 6-10 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts, skills, and applications taught in the module. Module Assessments represent the most important content taught in the module. These assessments use a variety of question types, such as constructed response, multiple select, multiple choice, single answer, and multi-part. There are two analogous versions of each Module Assessment available digitally. Analogous versions target the same material at the same level of cognitive complexity.” Examples of summative Module Assessments items that assess grade-level standards include:

  • Module 1, Module Assessment 1, Item 3, “Round 453,182 to the given place. Nearest hundred thousand:____ Nearest thousand: _____ Nearest hundred: _____.” The options are 1(500,000), 2(453,000), 3(453,200). (4.NBT.3)

  • Module 3, Module Assessment 1, Item 7, “A pet store owner has 243 goldfish. She sells 67 of them. She places the remaining goldfish in equal groups among her goldfish bowls. Each goldfish bowl holds 8 goldfish. Part A Which is the closest estimate for the number of bowls the pet store owner needs for the remaining goldfish? Part B How many bowls does the pet store owner need for the remaining goldfish? The pet store owner needs ___ bowls. Part C Is your answer reasonable? Explain.” (4.OA.3)

  • Module 5, Assessment 1, Item 6, “Ivan says that 0.9 is less than 0.41 because 9 is less than 41. Do you agree with Ivan? Explain.” (4.NF.7)

  • Module 6, Module Assessment 1, Item 6, students are shown a fraction with 360 as the denominator and asked, “What fraction of a circle is a 58°58\degree angle?” (4.MD.5)

  • Module 6, Module Assessment 2, Item 1, students are shown six figures (three oval and three heart figures with lines drawn through each) and asked, “Which figures appear to show a line of symmetry? Select the three correct answers.” (4.G.3)

Indicator 1B
04/04

Materials give all students extensive work with grade-level problems to meet the full intent of grade-level standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for giving all students extensive work with grade-level problems to meet the full intent of grade-level standards.

According to the Grades 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Each lesson is structured in four sections: Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. Lessons are designed for one 60-minute instructional period. Fluency provides distributed practice with previously learned material. It is designed to prepare students for new learning by activating prior knowledge and bridging small learning gaps. Launch creates an accessible entry point to the day’s learning through activities that build context and often create productive struggle that leads to a need for the learning that follows. Every Launch ends with a transition statement that sets the goal for the day’s learning. Learn presents new learning related to the lesson objective, usually through a series of instructional segments. This lesson component takes most of the instructional time. Suggested facilitation styles vary and may include direct instruction, guided instruction, group work, partner activities, interactive video, and digital elements. The Problem Set, an opportunity for independent practice, is included in Learn. Land helps you facilitate a brief discussion to close the lesson. Suggested questions, including key questions related to the objective, help students synthesize the day’s learning.” 

Instructional materials engage all students in extensive work with grade-level problems through the consistent lesson structure. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction, Lessons 7, 8, and 9 engages students with extensive work with 4.NBT.2 (Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons). Lesson 7, Fluency, Whiteboard Exchange: Unit to Standard Form, “students write the standard form of a two- or three-digit number given in unit form to prepare for writing numbers within 1,000,000. Display 1 ten 7 ones = _____. When I give the signal, read the number shown in unit form. Ready? Write the number in standard form.” Lesson 8, Learn, Write Numbers in Standard and Word Forms, “students group thousands to write numbers in word form and standard form. Write the number 1894 on the Place Value Chart to Millions. Where did you place the comma in the number? How do you know it belongs there? How do we read the number?” A place value chart to millions is shown. Lesson 9, Land, Debrief, “students compare numbers within 1,000,000 by using < , = , and >.” Teacher uses prompts to guide students in a discussion about place value and comparing numbers: “Write 51,034 and 510,034 with the 5 and 1 aligned as shown. Casey says these two numbers are equal because they both start with 51 and have most of the same digits. Do you agree or disagree? Why? How could you use ten times as much to compare the value of the 5 in the two numbers? The value of the 1? How are units important when comparing numbers? How are digits important when comparing numbers?” 

  • Module 2, Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Lesson 5 engages students in extensive work of grade level problems with 4.NBT.5 (Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models). Fluency, Whiteboard Exchange: Multiply in Unit and Standard Form and Add, “students multiply tens and ones in unit form, write equations, in standard form, and add two products to build fluency with place value strategies for multiplying.” Teacher displays the equation  2×32\times3 tens = ___ and asks, “What is 2×32\times3 tens in unit form? Raise your hand when you know. Repeat the process with the following sequence: 2×42\times4 tens =___; 2×62\times6 ones =___; 3×33\times3 tens =___; 3×23\times2 ones = ___; 4×54\times5 tens =___; 4×44\times4 ones = ___.” Learn, Use the Place Value Chart to Multiply, “students draw on a place value chart to help them multiply and identify partial products.” Teacher instructs students, “Write 4×124\times12 and direct students to do the same. Let’s draw a place value chart and represent 12 by using tens and one.” A labeled place value chart with tens and ones is shown. Land, Debrief, “students multiply by using place value strategies and the distributive property.” Teacher facilitates a discussion about decomposing a factor into place value units and using the distributive property to multiply using writing prompts: “How can we use what we know about multiplying by place value units to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number? Why do we use the distributive property to find partial products when multiplying a two-digit number by a one-digit number?” Exit Ticket, “Draw on the place value chart to represent the expression 3×413\times41. Complete the equations.” A two column table labeled tens and ones is shown.

  • Module 3, Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Lessons 21, 22, and 23 engages students with extensive work with 4.OA.3 (Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding). Lesson 21, Learn, Remainders, students identify remainders using arrays. “17 chairs are placed in rows of 5. What is the greatest number of rows of 5 chairs you can make with 17 chairs? Is every chair in a row of 5? What is the quotient? What is the remainder?” Lesson 22, Launch, students relate division to word problems and tape diagrams. “Jayla collects 150 gemstones. She places all the gemstones into cases. Each case has 5 gemstones. How many cases have gemstones? What is the quotient? What does it represent? What division expression is represented by both tape diagrams?” Lesson 23, Learn, Error Analysis, students identify and correct the mistakes in multi-step word problems. The teacher reads the problem with the class, “There are 8 classes of fourth graders in the cafeteria. Each class has 24 students. The tables in the cafeteria each have 5 chairs. What is the fewest number of tables needed for all the students?, and asks, What is known, What is unknown?” An image of “Robin’s Way” is provided with the following solution, “The fewest number of tables needed for all the students is 38. Present the work that shows Robin’s way.” Teacher informs students that Robin’s solution is not correct and provides students with one minute to identify the error and share. 

The instructional materials provide opportunities for all students to engage with the full intent of standards. Examples include: 

  • Module 2, Fractional Units, Lessons 18,19 and 20 engages students with the full intent of   4.MD.3 (Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems). Lesson 18, Launch, “students determine the distance around a soccer field.” Teacher displays a picture of the soccer field and presents the problem. “A soccer team warms up by running laps around the edge of the soccer field. What distance do they run in 1 lap around the field?” Teacher invites students to think–pair–share about how to find the distance around the soccer field. A picture of a soccer field with length of 100m and width of 50m is shown. Lesson 19, Learn, Find the Area and Perimeter, “students use the length and width of a rectangle to find the area and perimeter.” Classwork, Problem 1, Teacher directs students to Problem 1 in their books and read the problem chorally as a class. “Which picture did we just see that relates to this problem? A rectangular garden bed is 4 feet wide. It is 3 times as long as it is wide. a. Draw a rectangle to represent the garden bed. Label the side lengths, b. Is 40 feet of wood enough to build a frame for the garden bed? How do you know? c. What is the area of the garden bed?” Lesson 20, Learn, Multiple Comparisons in One Problem, “students represent and solve a variety of comparisons in a word problem.” Teacher directs students to form groups of three students and displays the problem, “The perimeter of rectangle A is 42 meters. The perimeter of rectangle A is 3 times as long as the perimeter of rectangle B. The perimeter of rectangle C is 4 meters less than the perimeter of rectangle A. The perimeter of rectangle D is 3 times as long as the perimeter of rectangle A. Find the perimeter of each rectangle. How was finding the perimeters of rectangle B and rectangle D similar and different? How was finding the perimeters of rectangles B and C similar and different? From least to greatest, how would you order the rectangles according to their perimeters? How does the tape diagram help you?”

  • Module 4, Foundations for Fractions Operations, Lessons 3 and 19 engages students in the full intent of 4.NF.3 (Understand a fraction ab\frac{a}{b} with a>1a>1 as a sum of fractions 1b\frac{1}{b}). Lesson 3, Learn, Decompose a Fraction into Non-Unit Fractions, “students decompose a fraction and relate each decomposition to a sum of fractions.” Teacher distributes one paper strip to students and guides students into folding the strips into eighths. “What equation can we write to show 78\frac{7}{8} as a sum of a unit fraction?” Teacher invites students to share their work and guide a discussion relating to decomposing 78\frac{7}{8} into unit fractions and non-unit fractions. “How many eighths are represented by the first color? How many eighths are represented by the second color? How could we record this decomposition as a sum of non-unit fractions?” A fraction strip partitioned into eighths is shown. Lesson 19, Land, Exit Ticket, “Add or subtract. Write the sum or difference in fraction form. You may use a number line to help you. 1. 7868=\frac{7}{8}-\frac{6}{8}=___.”

  • Module 5, Place Value Concepts, Lessons 4 and 8 engages students in the full intent of 4.NF.6 (Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100.). Lesson 4, Learn, Mixed Numbers and Decimal Form on a Number Line, ”students use a number line to represent and make connections between mixed numbers and numbers written in decimal form.” The teacher directs students (in pairs) to represent 1 one and 7 tenths by drawing a number line. “How did you draw a number line to represent 1 one 7 tenths? How did you label the point you plotted to represent 1 one 7 tenths? Why can the point on the number line be labeled in decimal form and as a mixed number in fraction form?” The teacher selects a pair to share their equation and write 1710=1.71\frac{7}{10}=1.7 as they share. “How do we read the mixed number? How does saying the mixed number help us write the number in decimal form? What does the wordand represent in the mixed number?” Lesson 8, Land, Debrief, “students express decimal numbers in expanded form.” Teacher facilitates a discussion about expanded form and the value of digits in decimal numbers. “In what different ways can we represent decimal numbers in expanded form? How can place value cards and the place value chart help us write a number in expanded form? What number is shown on the place value cards? What is the value of the 5? 4? 9?” Teacher shows students  5.49 by using place value cards and invites students to turn and talk about how writing or thinking about a number such as 5.49 in expanded form might be useful as they learn more about decimal numbers.

Criterion 1.2: Coherence

08/08

Each grade’s materials are coherent and consistent with the Standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for coherence. The materials: address the major clusters of the grade, have supporting content connected to major work, make connections between clusters and domains, and have content from prior and future grades connected to grade-level work.

Indicator 1C
02/02

When implemented as designed, the majority of the materials address the major clusters of each grade.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations that, when implemented as designed, the majority of the materials address the major work of each grade. The instructional materials devote at least 65 percent of instructional time to the major clusters of the grade. 

  • The number of modules devoted to the major work of the grade (including assessments and supporting work connected to the major work) is 4.5 out of 6, approximately 75%.

  • The number of lessons devoted to the major work of the grade (including supporting work connected to the major work) is 100 out of 140, approximately, 71%. 

  • The number of days devoted to the major work of the grade (including assessments and supporting work connected to the major work) is 120 out of 140, approximately 86%. 

A lesson-level analysis is most representative of the instructional materials as the lessons include major work and supporting work connected to major work. As a result, approximately 71% of the instructional materials focus on major work of the grade.

Indicator 1D
02/02

Supporting content enhances focus and coherence simultaneously by engaging students in the major work of the grade.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations that supporting content enhances focus and coherence simultaneously by engaging students in the major work of the grade. 

Materials are designed so supporting standards are connected to the major work standards and teachers can locate these connections on a tab called, “Achievement Descriptors and Standards” within lessons. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic E, Lesson 23, Express metric measurements of length in terms of smaller units, Learn, Relative Size of Units, connects the supporting work of 4.OA.5 (Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule…) to the major work of 4.NBT.1 (Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right). “Students relate the relative sizes of metric length units to the place value system.” The teacher invites students to turn and talk about how many centimeters long their meter sticks are and directs students to slide their fingers from 0 to 10 and asks, “What distance is 10 times as long as 1 centimeter? What distance is 100 times as long as 1 centimeter? How many times is a length of 1 centimeter used to measure a length of 1 meter? We can say that 1 meter is 100 times as long as 1 centimeter. What equation can we write to represent the statement? The meter stick is 1 meter long. How many centimeters are the same length as 1 meter?” The teacher directs students to the chart relating meters and kilometers and asks, “What type of chart have we used before that these charts might remind you of? In the place value system, how do we rename 100 ones? In the metric measurement system, how do we rename 100 centimeters?” Teacher invites students to talk about how meters and centimeters are related and asks, “How many meter sticks could we line up end to end to show a distance that is 10 times as long as 1 meter? What is the length of 10 meter sticks? How many meter sticks could we use to show a distance that is 100 times as long as 1 meter? What is the length of 100 meter sticks? How many meter sticks could we use to show a distance 1,000 times as long as 1 meter? If we lined up 1,000 meter sticks end to end, the length would be 1,000 meters, or 1 kilometer. Kilometers are abbreviated as km. We can say that 1 kilometer is 1,000 times as long as 1 meter. What equation can we write to represent the statement?” Teacher says and writes 1 Kilometer is 1,000 times as long as 1 meter and asks, “What equation can we write to represent the statement? How many meters are the same length as 1 kilometer?” Teacher directs students to chart the relation between meters and kilometers and asks, “How do we rename 1,000 ones? How do we rename 1,000 meters?” Teacher invites students to turn and talk about how the metric system is similar to the place value system and how kilometers and meters are related. 

  • Module 2, Topic D, Lesson 17: Express measurements of length in terms of smaller units, Launch, connects the supporting work of 4.MD.2 (Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale) to the major work of 4.NBT.5 (Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations…). Students convert from larger customary length measurements to smaller customary length measurements. The teacher displays a picture of a ribbon, “What do you notice about the units on the spool of ribbon? Yards and feet are customary units of length. What do you notice about the numbers next to the units?” The teacher invites students to think-pair-share and discuss why the spool of ribbon is labeled with different measurements, then holds up a meter stick and asks, “What metric units of length are represented on the meter stick? Which unit is larger, meters or centimeters? How does the meter stick represent the relationship between the larger unit, meters, and the smaller unit, centimeters? Which customary unit is larger, yards or feet?” A picture of a spool of ribbon is shown. Learn Conversion Strategies, students represent length conversions using tape diagrams, number lines and conversion tables. The teacher shows three paper strips lined up end to end and asks, “How many feet are represented by my paper strips? Let’s draw a tape diagram to represent my paper strips.” Teacher guides students through the process of drawing a tape diagram with the total labeled as 3 feet and 3 equal units to represent the paper strips. “Write 3 feet =  _____and direct students to do the same. How can we use a number line and our tape diagram to figure out how many inches are in 2 feet? Draw a number line below the tape diagram. Draw tick marks on the number line aligned with 0 feet, 1 foot, 2 feet, and 3 feet on the tape diagram. Direct students to do the same and invite students to work with a partner to label the inches on the number line. Start at the first tick mark and slide your finger along the number line, pausing at each tick mark as you ask the following question. How many inches are represented by the tick mark? Label the tick marks 0 inches, 12 inches, 24 inches, and 36 inches as students share their answers. How many inches are equal to 3 feet? How do the number line and conversion table also show that 3 feet = 36 inches? What strategy did you use to label the tick marks with inches? Can you use similar strategies of repeated addition, skip-counting by twelve, or multiplying the number of feet by 12 when using one number line or a conversion table to convert feet to inches? How many feet are in 6 yards? What multiplication equation represents how to convert 6 yards to feet? What does 6 represent? What does 3 represent? What does 18 represent?” Land, Debrief, Students express customary measurements of length in terms of smaller units. Teacher facilitates a discussion about expressing customary measurements of length in terms of smaller units using the following prompts: “How are yards, feet, and inches related? How can we convert measurements with larger length units to measurements with smaller length units?”

  • Module 4, Topic D, Lesson 20: Subtract a fraction from a whole number, Learn, Solve a Word Problem, connects the supporting work of 4.MD.2 (Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit…) to the major work of 4.NF.3d (Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem). Students subtract fractions from whole numbers to solve word problems. “Luke buys 15 pounds of rice. He uses 14\frac{1}{4} pounds of rice. How many pounds of rice does Luke have left?” The teacher asks, “What is this problem about? What is known? What can we draw to represent the known information?” The teacher draws and labels a tape diagram to represent the known information in the problem, directs students to do the same, and asks, “What is unknown? What in the tape diagram represents the amount of rice he has left? How can we show the value of this part is unknown? How many pounds of rice does Luke have left?” The teacher labels the unknown part with the letter p, invites students to talk about how the tape diagram helps them solve the problem. The teacher directs students to write an equation using pto represent the unknown, find the value of p, write a statement to answer the questions, and asks, “How many pounds of rice does Luke have left?” Teacher guides a discussion to help students connect the equation and the tape diagram, using the prompts: “Where is the total amount of rice represented in the tape diagram? In the equation? Where are the pounds of rice that he used represented in the tape diagram? In the equation? Where are the pounds of rice that are left represented in the tape diagram? In the equation?”

Indicator 1E
02/02

Materials include problems and activities that serve to connect two or more clusters in a domain or two or more domains in a grade.

The instructional materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for including problems and activities that serve to connect two or more clusters in a domain or two or more domains in a grade. 

Grade 4 lessons are coherent and consistent with the Standards. Teachers can locate standard connections on a tab called, “Achievement Descriptors and Standards” within lessons. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic E, Lesson 21: Find factor pairs for numbers up to 𝟏𝟎𝟎 and use factors to identify numbers as prime or composite, Launch, connects the supporting work of 4.OA.B (Gain familiarity with factors and multiples) to the supporting work of 4.MD.A (Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit). Students reasons about factors for a given number using arrays. “Write the equation l×w=24l\times w=24.” Teacher, “Invite students to turn and talk about numbers that make the equation true and directs students to work with a partner to draw as many arrays with an area of 24 square units as possible. As they create each array, have them sketch the array and record the equation that represents the area. Provide students with 2 minutes to find all possible arrays, sketch the arrays, and record the equations. After students record the equations, direct them to work with another group to compare their equations and to discuss the factors of 24 based on the equations they recorded. Invite students to think–pair–share about how they know that they have found all the factors of 24. We started with 1 and thought about whether we could make an array with 1 row. Then we tried 2 rows and 3 rows. We kept going like that until we got up to 6 rows. When we got to 6 rows, we realized it was the same factors we had already listed. We thought about all the multiplication facts that have a product of 24. Invite students to turn and talk about how they might find all the factors of a number such as 96. Transition to the next segment by framing the work. Today, we will identify all factor pairs for a given number, and we will describe numbers based on how many factors they have.”

  • Module 3, Topic F, Lesson 22: Represent, estimate, and solve division word problems, Launch, connects the major work of 4.OA.A (Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems) to major work of 4.NBT.B (Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic). “Students relate two types of division to word problems and tape diagrams.” Teacher displays a picture of two tape diagrams and invites students to think-pair-share about what is similar and different about the tape diagrams. Teacher displays and presents the problem, “Jayla collects 150 gemstones. She puts equal amounts of gemstones into 5 cases. How many gemstones are in each case? What is the quotient? What does it represent? Jayla collects 150 gemstones. She places all the gemstones into cases. Each case has 5 gemstones. How many cases have gemstones? What is the quotient? What does it represent? What division expression is represented by both tape diagrams? How is what is known and unknown in the second problem different from what is known and unknown in the first problem?” Learn, Estimate Quotients, Classwork, Problem 2. Students solve word problems by estimating the quotient and rounding to a multiple of the divisor. “Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve the problem. Use a letter to represent the unknown. A florist has 1,174 flowers. He makes bunches of 4 flowers. How many bunches can he make?” Students work to solve the problem and then as a class discuss estimating to find the answer. “Let’s estimate the quotient by finding a multiple of 4 that is close to the total. How many hundreds are in 1,174? Is 11 hundreds a multiple of 4? Which multiple of 4 is close to 11 hundreds? How can that help you estimate the quotient? What is the estimated quotient?” Land, Exit Ticket, “Use the Read-Write-Draw process to solve the problem. Explain why your Quotient is reasonable. A factory makes 1,912 toys in 4 days. They make the same number of toys each day. How many toys do they make in 1 day?”

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 3: Draw right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles, Learn, Draw and Name an Angle, Classwork Problem 1, connects the supporting work of 4.G.A (Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles) to the supporting work of 4.MD.C (Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles), as students draw right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles. “Draw an angle with the given ray. Label the angle. Use LM\overline{LM} to draw KLM\angle KLM.” An image of a ray is shown.

Indicator 1F
02/02

Content from future grades is identified and related to grade-level work, and materials relate grade-level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge from earlier grades.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations that content from future grades is identified and related to grade-level work, and materials relate grade-level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge from earlier grades.

Content from future grades is identified within materials and related to grade-level work. These references are consistently included within Topic and Module Overviews to reveal coherence across modules and grade levels. The Topic Overview includes information about how learning connects to previous or future content. Some Teacher Notes within lessons enhance mathematical reasoning by providing connections/explanations to prior and future concepts. Examples include: 

  • Module 1: Topic A: Multiplication as Multiplicative Comparison, Topic Overview, connects 4.OA.1 (Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations) and 4.OA.2 (Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison) to work in Grade 5. “Students use models and multiplicative comparison language to represent multiplicative relationships. Multiplicative comparison gives students another way to interpret multiplication. For example, they see 15=3×515=3\times5 as 15 is 3 times as many as 5. This interpretation of multiplication is foundational throughout grade 4 as students describe place value relationships, identify multiples of whole numbers and fractions, and convert measurement units. It also prepares students for multiplication as scaling in grade 5.”

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Module Overview, After This Module, connects 4.NBT.5 (Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models) and 4.NBT.6 (Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models) to work in Grade 5. "In grade 5 module 1, students multiply multi-digit whole numbers and develop fluency with the standard algorithm for multiplication. Students also divide with two-digit divisors and continue building conceptual understanding of multi-digit whole number division. They find whole-number quotients and remainders. In module 2, students transition from finding whole-number quotients and remainders to fractional quotients. In modules 1, 3, and 4 of grade 5, students use multiplicative relationships to convert metric and customary units involving whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. In addition to expressing larger measurement units in terms of smaller units, they express smaller measurement units in terms of larger units."

  • Module 5: Topic D, Lesson 14: Solve word problems with tenths and hundredths, Learn, Solve a Comparison Word Problem, Teacher Note, connects 4.NF.5 (Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100) and 4.MD.2 (Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale) to work in Grade 5. “If students use vertical form to show addition of decimal numbers, consider acknowledging their method and asking them to show their work in fraction form. Students learn to add decimal numbers by using vertical form in grade 5.”

Materials relate grade-level concepts from Grade 4 explicitly to prior knowledge. These references can be found consistently within Topic and Module Overviews and less commonly within teacher notes at the lesson level. In Grade 4, prior connections are often made to content from previous modules within the grade. Examples include:

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction, Module Overview, Before This Module, connects 4.OA.1 (Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison) to work from Grade 3. “In grade 3 module 1, students build a conceptual understanding of multiplication as a number of equal groups (e.g., 4×3=124\times3=12 can be interpreted as 4 groups of 3 is 12). In grade 3 module 2, students compose and decompose metric measurement units and relate them to place value units up to 1 thousand. They use place value understanding and the vertical number line to round two- and three-digit numbers. Grade 3 students also add and subtract two- and three-digit numbers by using a variety of strategies, including the standard algorithm.”

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Module Overview, Before This Module, connects 4.NBT.5 (Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models) and 4.MD.3 (Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems) to work from Grade 3. "In grade 3, students develop conceptual understanding of multiplication and division and become fluent with multiplication and division facts within 100. They multiply multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers, recognizing that they can use familiar facts and only the unit changes. Models and methods used in grade 3 include drawing equal groups and arrays, using the break apart and distribute strategy, writing equations in unit form and standard form, and applying the commutative and associative properties. In grade 3, students find the areas and perimeters of rectangles. They tile rectangles and count the number of square units to determine the areas, eventually recognizing that the area can be found by multiplying the number of square units in each row by the number of square units in each column. Students find the perimeter by adding and by using multiplication, focusing on the relationships between the side lengths in rectangles and other polygons."

  • Module 4: Topic A: Fraction Decomposition and Equivalence, Topic Overview, connects 4.NF.3a (Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole) and 4.NF.3b (Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way, recording each decomposition by an equation) to work in Grade 3. “In topic A, students decompose whole numbers and fractions into sums of fractions. They also develop an understanding that a mixed number is the sum of a whole number and a fraction less than 1, which helps them as they rename fractions greater than 1 and rename mixed numbers.”

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In order to foster coherence between grades, materials can be completed within a regular school year with little to no modification.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 foster coherence between grades and can be completed within a regular school year with little to no modification.

According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Grade levels have fewer lessons than the typical number of instructional days in a school year. This provides some flexibility in the schedule for assessment and responsive teaching, and it allows for unexpected circumstances.” As stated in the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, pages 35-36: “Plan to teach one lesson per day of instruction. Each lesson is designed for an instructional period that lasts 60 minutes. Some lessons in each grade level are optional. Optional lessons are clearly designated in the instructional sequence, and they are included in the total number of lessons per grade level.”

In Grade 4, there are 140 days of instruction including:

  • 140 lesson days

  • Additionally, there are 2 optional lessons (with provided content).

Not included in the lesson days are six module assessments and fifteen topic quizzes. These are described in the Implementation Guide, “Typical Topic Quizzes consist of 4–6 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts from the topic. There are three analogous versions of each Topic Quiz available digitally. Analogous versions target the same material at the same level of cognitive complexity. However, typical items on analogous versions are not clones of the original version. Use the analogous versions to give retakes, with reteaching or additional practice between takes, until students score proficient or above. Typical Module Assessments consist of 6–10 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts, skills, and applications taught in the module. Module Assessments represent the most important content, but they may not assess all the strategies and standards taught in the module. There are two analogous versions of each Module Assessment available digitally. Analogous versions target the same material at the same level of cognitive complexity. However, typical items on analogous versions are not clones of the original version. Use the analogous versions to give retakes, with reteaching or additional practice between takes, until students score proficient or above.” 

There are six modules in each Grade 3 to 5 and within those modules, there are between 20 and 30 lessons.The Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide outlines a typical lesson. “Each lesson is structured in four sections: Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. Lessons are designed for one 60-minute instructional period. Fluency - Fluency provides distributed practice with previously learned material. It is designed to prepare students for new learning by activating prior knowledge and bridging small learning gaps. Launch - Launch creates an accessible entry point to the day’s learning through activities that build context and often create productive struggle that leads to a need for the learning that follows. Every Launch ends with a transition statement that sets the goal for the day’s learning. Learn - Learn presents new learning related to the lesson objective, usually through a series of instructional segments. This lesson component takes most of the instructional time. Suggested facilitation styles vary and may include direct instruction, guided instruction, group work, partner activities, interactive video, and digital elements. The Problem Set, an opportunity for independent practice, is included in Learn. Land - Land helps you facilitate a brief discussion to close the lesson and provides students with an opportunity to complete the Exit Ticket. In the Debrief portion of Land, suggested questions, including key questions related to the objective, help students synthesize the day’s learning. The Exit Ticket provides a window into what students understand so that you can make instructional decisions.”  

In Grade 4, each lesson is composed of: 

  • Fluency: 5-15 minutes

  • Launch: 5-10 minutes

  • Learn: 30-40 minutes

  • Land: 10 minutes

Overview of Gateway 2

Rigor & the Mathematical Practices

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for rigor and balance and practice-content connections. The materials help students develop procedural skills, fluency, and application. The materials also make meaningful connections between the Standards for Mathematical Content and the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs).

Criterion 2.1: Rigor and Balance

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Materials reflect the balances in the Standards and help students meet the Standards’ rigorous expectations, by giving appropriate attention to: developing students’ conceptual understanding; procedural skill and fluency; and engaging applications.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for rigor. The materials develop conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, give attention throughout the year to procedural skill and fluency, and spend sufficient time working with engaging applications of mathematics. There is a balance of the three aspects of rigor within the grade.

Indicator 2A
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Materials develop conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, especially where called for in specific content standards or cluster headings.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for developing conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, especially where called for in specific content standards or cluster headings.

Materials provide opportunities for students to develop conceptual understanding throughout the grade level.These opportunities are most often found within the Launch and Learn portions of lessons. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic B, Lesson 9: Compare numbers within 1,000,000 by using >, =, and <, Learn, Compare Values of Digits, students develop conceptual understanding by reasoning about place value units and the value of the digits in two numbers to compare numbers within 1,000,000. Students also compare numbers in different forms and order more than two numbers. Teachers, “Write 16,300 and 1,650. Invite students to think–pair–share about which number is greater. How might the place value chart be helpful in comparing these numbers? Write 16,300 and 1,650 on the place value chart as students do the same. Write sentence frames for students to complete. Have students complete the sentences. As they say each sentence, record the comparison by using the greater than or less than symbol. Draw students’ attention to the symbol and the phrase it represents. Direct students to write two statements for the numbers 16,300 and 1,650 by using comparison symbols under the place value chart.” (4.NBT.2)

  • Module 2, Topic B, Lesson 5: Multiply by using place value strategies and the distributive property, Launch, students develop conceptual understanding as they determine which representation does not belong. “Introduce the Which One Doesn’t Belong? routine. Display the pictures of the number bond, tape diagram, and equations. Give students 2 minutes to find a category in which three of the pictures belong, but a fourth picture does not. When time is up, invite students to explain their chosen categories and to justify why one picture does not fit. Highlight responses that emphasize reasoning about decomposing a factor to multiply. Ask questions that invite students to use precise language, make connections, and ask questions of their own. Consider asking the following questions to guide the discussion. Which one doesn’t belong? Why do you think 31 is decomposed in all 4 pictures? What do you notice about how 31 is decomposed in pictures A, C, and D? Invite students to turn and talk about why they think most of the pictures show 31 decomposed into tens and ones.” (4.NBT.5) 

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 1: Decompose whole numbers into a sum of unit fractions, Learn, Decompose into a Sum of Unit Fractions, students develop conceptual understanding of fractions by relating fraction strips and number bonds to equations that decompose 1 and 2 into a sum of unit fractions. The teacher, “Distribute two paper strips to each student. Direct students to fold one of the strips into 2 equal parts. Then lay the strip on a whiteboard and use a bracket to label the strip as 1. The whole paper strip represents 1. How can we name each part? How do you know? Each part is 12\frac{1}{2}. There is 1 rectangle partitioned into 2 equal parts. One of those parts is 1 half. Invite students to label each part in unit form and fraction form. How many halves are equivalent to, or the same amount as, 1? Begin a number bond with a total of 1 as students do the same. How can we use a number bond to show how we decomposed 1? We decomposed 1 into 12\frac{1}{2} and 12\frac{1}{2}. Complete the number as students do the same. Write an equation to show the decomposition of 1 into halves as students do the same.” (4.NF.3)  

Materials provide opportunities for students to independently demonstrate conceptual understanding throughout the grade level. The Problem Set, within Learn, consistently includes these opportunities. When appropriate, teachers may use other portions of lessons for independent demonstration of conceptual understanding. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic C, Lesson 16: Divide by using the break apart and distribute strategy, Land Exit Ticket, students demonstrate conceptual understanding by dividing, explaining or showing the strategy used. “Find. 172÷4172\div4.Show or explain your strategy” (4.NBT.6) 

  • Module 4, Topic D, Lesson 18: Estimate sums and differences of fractions by using benchmarks, Learn, Problem 1, Estimate a Sum, students demonstrate conceptual understanding by using estimation and fraction addition to solve real-world problems. “Use the Read-Draw-Write process to solve the problem, Carla makes food for a bake sale. Each recipe lists vanilla as an ingredient. The cake recipe uses 238\frac{23}{8} teaspoons. The pie recipe uses 98\frac{9}{8} teaspoons. The cookie recipe uses 38\frac{3}{8} teaspoons. The cupcake recipe uses 118\frac{11}{8} teaspoons. About how many teaspoons of vanilla does Carla use?” (4.NF.3) 

  • Module 5, Topic A, Lesson 3: Represent tenths as a place value unit, Land, Exit Ticket, students demonstrate conceptual understanding as they use area models and place value disks to represent tenths, and they write equations to show the equivalence of numbers in fraction form and decimal form. Problem 1, “Write the decimal fraction as a decimal number. 6 tenths, 610=\frac{6}{10}=___.” An area model is provided. Problem 2, “Write the decimal number as a decimal fraction. 4 tenths, 0.4 = ___.” Four place value disks are provided. (4.NF.6)

Indicator 2B
02/02

Materials give attention throughout the year to individual standards that set an expectation for procedural skill and fluency.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for giving attention throughout the year to individual standards that set an expectation of procedural skill and fluency. 

The materials develop procedural skill and fluency throughout the grade level, within various portions of lessons, including Fluency, Launch, and Learn. Examples include: 

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 16: Add by using the standard algorithm, Fluency, Whiteboard Exchange: Estimate Sums, students develop procedural skill and fluency as they estimate a sum within 1,000 to prepare for using estimation to assess the reasonableness of an answer. The teacher displays “469+228=m469+228=m,” and asks: “How could you round each addend to help you estimate the sum? Whisper your idea to your partner. Provide time for students to share with their partners. Write an equation that shows an estimated sum and how you rounded both addends.” (4.NBT.4)

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 18: Subtract by using the standard algorithm, decomposing larger units once, Fluency, Beep Counting by Ten Thousands, students develop procedural skill and fluency as they complete a pattern to build fluency with finding one ten thousand more and less than a given number from topic C. “Invite students to participate in Beep Counting. Listen carefully as I count on and count back by ten thousands. I will replace one of the numbers with the word beep. Raise your hand when you know the beep number. Ready? Display the sequence 47,000, 57,000, beep. 47,000, 57,000, beep Wait until most students raise their hands, and then signal for students to respond. Display the answer.” (4.NBT.4)

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 19: Subtract by using the standard algorithm, decomposing larger units up to 3 times, Launch, students develop procedural skill and fluency as they subtract three-digit numbers using the standard algorithm. The teacher leads a discussion about renaming in order to subtract using the standard algorithm. “Write 612437612-437 horizontally. We can use what we know about renaming more than once with smaller numbers to help us rename more than once with larger numbers.” (4.NBT.4)

Materials provide opportunities for students to independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency throughout the grade level. The Problem Set, within Learn, consistently includes these opportunities. When appropriate, teachers may use other portions of lessons for independent demonstration of procedural skill and fluency. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 16: Add by using the standard algorithm, Learn, Problem Set, Problems 1-3, students independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency as they add numbers with up to six digits, “Add by using the standard algorithm. Problem 1, 5,212+3675,212+367; Problem 2, 5,212+1,3675,212+1,367; Problem 3, 5,252+1,3675,252+1,367.” (4.NBT.4)

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 19: Subtract by using the standard algorithm, decomposing larger units up to 3 times, Problem Set 1 - 3, students independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency as they subtract using the standard algorithm. Problem 1, “3,5702,4903,570-2,490.” Problem 2, “3,5702,5903,570-2,590.” Problem 3, “96,87348,90096,873-48,900.” (4.NBT.4)

  • Module 5, Topic D, Lesson 12: Apply fraction equivalence to add tenths and hundredths, Fluency, Whiteboard Exchange: Multiply Whole Numbers, students independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency as they multiply two-digit numbers to build multiplication fluency with multi-digit numbers. “Display 20×34=20\times34=. Multiply. Show your strategy. Give students time to work. When most students are ready, signal for students to show their whiteboards. Provide immediate and specific feedback. If students need to revise, briefly return to validate their corrections. Display the total. Repeat the process with the following sequence: 62×40=62\times40=___, 12×14=12\times14=___, 32×29=32\times29=___” (4.NBT.5)

Indicator 2C
02/02

Materials are designed so that teachers and students spend sufficient time working with engaging applications of the mathematics.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for being designed so that teachers and students spend sufficient time working with engaging applications of the mathematics. 

There are multiple routine and non-routine application problems throughout the grade level, including opportunities for students to work with support of the teacher and independently. While single and multi-step application problems are included across various portions of lessons, independent application opportunities are most often found within Problem Sets or the Lesson Debrief, Learn and Land sections respectively.

Examples of routine applications of the math include:

  • Module 3, Topic F, Lesson 22: Represent, estimate, and solve division word problems, Learn, Estimate Quotients, Classwork, Problem 1, students solve routine word problems using a letter to represent the unknown with teacher support. “A grocery store aisle has 378 cans of food. The cans are arranged equally among 6 shelves. How many cans of food are on each shelf?” Sample student response: “378÷6=c378\div6=c.”(4.OA.3)

  • Module 4, Topic E, Lesson 28: Represent and solve word problems with mixed numbers by using drawings and equations, Learn, Solve a Word Problem, Classwork, Problem 1, students solve routine problems by selecting representations and strategies to solve word problems with mixed numbers. “Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve the problem. There were 6386\frac{3}{8} pizzas on a table when lunch started. At the end of lunch, there were 2682\frac{6}{8} pizzas left. How many pizzas were eaten during lunch? Guide students to reason about the problem by asking questions such as the following: What information does the problem give us? What does the question ask? What can you draw to represent the problem?” (4.NF.3d)

  • Module 5, Topic D, Lesson 14: Solve word problems with tenths and hundredths, Land, Exit Ticket, students independently solve routine word problems with tenths and hundredths. “Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve the problem. Write the solution statement by using a decimal number. Miss Diaz’s class drinks 2.9 liters of juice. Mrs. Smith’s class drinks 3.15 liters of juice. How many liters of juice do both classes drink altogether?” (4.MD.2)

Examples of non-routine applications of the math include:

  • Module 1, Topic C, Lesson 15: Apply estimation to real-world situations by using rounding, Land, Exit Ticket, students independently solve non-routine problems by applying estimation to real-world situations using rounding. “Mr. Lopez plans to buy snacks for his students. He has 24 students in his first class, 18 students in his second class, and 23 students in his third class. Estimate how many snacks Mr. Lopez should buy. Explain how you estimated and why.” (4.OA.3)

  • Module 4, Topic F, Lesson 33: Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, Practice Set, Problem 4, students independently solve non-routine problems as they analyze different methods for multiplying a fraction by a whole number. “Mr. Davis puts 710\frac{7}{10} kilograms of soil into each of his flowerpots. He fills 1 dozen flowerpots. He uses a measuring container that holds 110\frac{1}{10} kilogram of soil. How many times does Mr. Davis fill the measuring container for all the flowerpots? (Hint: 1 dozen flowerpots = 12 flowerpots).” (4.NF.4c)

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 6: Relate geometric figures to a real world context, students use geometric figures to create a floor plan, Learn, Create a Floor Plan, Classwork, Problems 1 and 2, students solve non-routine problems with a partner by examining the requirements of the project, drawing a floor plan, using their knowledge of geometric figures, and discussing their floor plan features. Problem 1, “Use dot paper to create a floor plan of a home. Follow these guidelines: ___ Include only one level. Do not include stairs. ___ Use straight line segments. ___ Include hallways. ___ Include at least one example of each figure listed in the table. ___ Label each room.” Problem 2, “Use the floor plan to complete the table.” The table provides floor plan criteria including: line segments, parallel line segments, perpendicular line segments, right angles, acute angles, and obtuse angles. (4.G.1)

Indicator 2D
02/02

The three aspects of rigor are not always treated together and are not always treated separately. There is a balance of the three aspects of rigor within the grade.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations in that the three aspects of rigor are not always treated together and are not always treated separately. There is a balance of the three aspects of rigor within the grade. 

All three aspects of rigor are present independently throughout the grade. Examples where instructional materials attend to conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, or application include:

  • Module 1, Topic A, Lesson 2: Solve multiplicative comparison problems with unknowns in various positions, Learn, Model Multiplicative Comparison Problems, “students attend to conceptual understanding as they represent various multiplicative comparison situations with sticky notes, tape diagrams, and equations. Direct students to use sticky notes, a tape diagram, and an equation to represent the problem: 18 is 3 times as many as___. How does your tape diagram show what is unknown? How does your tape diagram show how many times the unit is repeated? What equation did you write to represent the problem? Why? How can you use a multiplication equation with an unknown factor to think about this problem? What is the value of the unknown? How do you know? What is the value of the unknown? How do you know?” (4.OA.1 and 4.OA.2)

  • Module 2, Topic C, Lesson 13: Divide three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers by using an area model, Fluency, Choral Response: 10 Times as Much, students attend to procedural skill and fluency as they solve for a product. “Display 1 on the place value chart. How many ones are on the place value chart? Say the answer in unit form. What is 10×110\times1 one? Say the answer in unit form. On my signal, say the equation in standard form. Repeat the process with the following sequence: 10×110\times1 ten = ___ hundred, 10×310\times3 tens = ___ hundreds, 10×110\times1 hundred = ___ thousand, 10×510\times5 hundreds = ___ thousands, 10×110\times1 thousand = ___ ten thousand, 10×710\times7 thousands = ___ ten thousands.” (4.NBT.1)

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 6: Rename mixed numbers as fractions greater than 1. Launch, Classwork, Problem 1, “students attend to application as they rename a whole number as a fraction and discuss using similar strategies to rename a mixed number. Ray needs 3 cups of flour to make bread. He only has a 12\frac{1}{2} cup measuring scoop. What did you draw to represent the problem? How can he use the 12\frac{1}{2} cup scoop to measure 3 cups of flour? Present the equation: 3=623=\frac{6}{2}.  Does renaming the whole number as a fraction help you think about the problem? Why? What is different about the number of cups of flour Ray needs to make cookies?” (4.NF.3a and 4.NF.3b)

Multiple aspects of rigor are engaged simultaneously to develop students’ mathematical understanding of a single unit of study throughout the materials. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic A, Lesson 2: Divide two- and three-digit multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers, Fluency, Counting on the Number Line by 2 Tens, “students engage with conceptual understanding and procedural skills and fluency as they build place value understanding counting by a unit of 2 tens in unit and standard from from 100 to 200 to operate with multi-digit numbers. Let’s count forward and back by twos from 10 to 20. Ready? Display the number line. Use the number line to count forward and back by 2 tens in unit form from 10 tens to 20 tens. The first number you say is 10 tens. Ready? Display each number, one at a time on the number line, as students count. Now count forward and back by 2 tens again. This time say the numbers in standard form. The first number you say is 100. Ready? Display each number, one at a time on the number line, as students count.” (4.NBT.6) 

  • Module 3, Topic B, Lesson 9: Solve multiplication word problems, Learn, Multiplicative Comparison: Share, Compare, and Connect, Equal-Groups Problem, students engage with procedural skills and fluency and application as they multiply to solve real-world problems. “There are 48 pencils in each box. Mr. Lopez buys 7 boxes of pencils. How many pencils does he buy in all?” (4.NBT.5)

  • Module 4, Topic B, Lesson 11: Represent equivalent fractions by using tape diagrams, number lines, and multiplication or division, Learn, Decompose and Compose Fractional Units, students engage with conceptual understanding and procedural skills and fluency as they solve problems involving equivalent fractions using tape diagrams and writing equations to represent them. “Label 68\frac{6}{8}on the number line and direct students to do the same. Invite students to turn and talk about how the tape diagram and number line represent the multiplication. Write 610=610+22=35\frac{6}{10}=\frac{6}{10}+\frac{2}{2}=\frac{3}{5} and direct students to do the same.” (4.NF.1)

Criterion 2.2: Math Practices

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Materials meaningfully connect the Standards for Mathematical Content and Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs).

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for practice-content connections. The materials meaningfully connect the Standards for Mathematical Content and the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs).

Indicator 2E
02/02

Materials support the intentional development of MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; and MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for supporting the intentional development of MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; and MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

Students have opportunities to engage with MP1 and MP2 across the year and they are identified for teachers within margin notes called, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice.” According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlights places in the lesson where students are engaging in or building experience with the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). Although most lessons offer opportunities for students to engage with more than one Standard for Mathematical Practice, this guidance identifies a focus MP within each lesson. The notes also provide lesson-specific information, ideas, and questions that you can use to deepen students’ engagement with the focus MP. Often, the suggested questions for a particular MP repeat. This intentional repetition supports students in understanding the MPs in different contexts.”

Materials provide intentional development of MP1 to meet its full intent in connection to grade-level content. Students make sense of problems and persevere in solving them as they work with the support of the teacher and independently throughout the units. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic C, Lesson 16: Divide by using the break apart and distributive strategy, Learn, Number of Groups Unknown, Classwork, students make sense of problems and persevere in solving them as they use the Read-Draw-Write process to solve a word problem. “A factory made 304 chair legs. How many chairs can the factory make with 4 legs on each chair? Ask the following questions to promote MP1: What is your plan to find how many chairs can be made? Is your strategy working? Is there something else you could try? Does your answer make sense? Why?”

  • Module 3, Topic B, Lesson 4: Apply place value strategies to divide hundreds, tens, and ones, Learn, Draw an Area Model to Divide, Classwork, “When students draw an area model and write an equation to divide, they are making sense of problems and persevering in solving them (MP1). Complete the equation and direct students to do the same. 639÷3=200+10+3=213639\div3=200+10+3=213. Invite students to talk about the similarities between the area model and the equation. Write 498÷2=498\div2=___. Draw a rectangle and direct students to do the same. ‘What is the width of the rectangle?’ (2) Students label the width. ‘What is the largest unit in the total? How many hundreds are in 498? How many hundreds compose the length of the rectangle? How do you know?’” The teacher is instructed to “Draw a line on the area model to indicate the partial area. Label the length as 200. Direct students to do the same. Point to the area model and ask the following question. What is the area of this part of the rectangle? How do you know? Label the area as 400 and direct students to do the same. How much of the area is left to represent? How many tens compose the length of the rectangle? How do you know? What is the area of this part of the rectangle? How do you know? Label the area as 80 and direct students to do the same. How much of the area is left to represent? Repeat the process with 18 ones. Relate the area of the rectangle to the width and the length of the rectangle by writing an equation. Then relate the length of the rectangle to the quotient. Invite students to add the areas of the small rectangles to verify that the area of the rectangle is equal to 498.”

  • Module 6, Topic C, Lesson 16: Find unknown angle measures around a point, Learn, Find Multiple Unknown Angle Measures, Problem Set and Debrief, “When students find multiple unknown angle measures around a point, they make sense of problems and persevere in solving them (MP1).” Problem Set, Problem 5, “Write and solve equations to find the unknown angle measures. EF\overline{EF} and GH\overline{GH} intersect at N. a. The measure of ENG\angle ENG is ___. b. The measure of GNF\angle GNF is ___. During the Debrief, the teacher facilitates a class discussion about using addition and subtraction to find unknown angle measures. “What are some ways we can find the measure of an angle without using a protractor? How can knowing the angle measure of an adjacent angle help you find unknown angle measures?”

Materials provide intentional development of MP2 to meet its full intent in connection to grade-level content. Students reason abstractly and quantitatively as they work with the support of the teacher and independently throughout the units. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic C, Lesson 11: Divide by using familiar strategies, Learn, Choose a Strategy to Divide, Classwork, “Students reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2) as they choose a strategy and divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number to solve a word problem. Find the unknown. Show or explain your strategy. 1. 6 people equally share 78 dollars. How much money does each person get? Ask the following questions to promote MP2: How does the context of 6 people equally sharing 78 dollars help you decide which model and strategy to use? Does your solution make sense mathematically?” 

  • Module 4, Topic F, Lesson 33: Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, Learn, Multiplicative Comparison Word Problem, Classwork, Problem 2, “Students reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2) as they use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve a word problem, decontextualize to multiply a fraction by a whole number, and decide to express the product as a fraction or as a mixed number. Use the Read-Draw-Write process to solve the problem. 2. A kitten weighs 45\frac{4}{5} kilograms. A puppy is 6 times as heavy as the kitten. How many kilograms does the puppy weigh?” The teacher is prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP2: “What does the given information in the problem tell you about how to draw a tape diagram to represent the situation? How does your tape diagram represent how the weights of the kitten and puppy are related? Does your answer make sense mathematically?”

  • Module 5, Topic B, Lesson 8: Represent decimal numbers in expanded form, Practice Set, Problems 5 - 10, as students “use the relationship between one-dollar bills, dimes, and pennies to understand expanded form of decimal numbers, they are reasoning abstractly and quantitatively (MP2). Write each number in expanded form. Use decimal form or fraction form. 5. 3 ones 2 tenths, 6. 5 ones 4 tenths 9 hundredths. Write the value of each digit. Use decimal form. 9. 3.84, 10. 7.09”

Indicator 2F
02/02

Materials support the intentional development of MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for supporting the intentional development of MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards. 

Students have opportunities to engage with MP3 across the year and it is explicitly identified for teachers within materials in margin notes called, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice.” According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlights places in the lesson where students are engaging in or building experience with the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). Although most lessons offer opportunities for students to engage with more than one Standard for Mathematical Practice, this guidance identifies a focus MP within each lesson. The notes also provide lesson-specific information, ideas, and questions that you can use to deepen students’ engagement with the focus MP. Often, the suggested questions for a particular MP repeat. This intentional repetition supports students in understanding the MPs in different contexts.”

Students construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others in connection to grade-level content as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the units. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic C, Lesson 15: Apply estimation to real-world situations by using rounding, Learn, Classwork, Estimate by Rounding in a Different Way, “Students construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others (MP3) when they explore rounding to a place value unit other than the nearest unit. 934,242 people visited a museum last year. Will rounding last year’s number of visitors to the nearest ten thousand give a useful estimate for the number of visitors next year? Why?” The teacher is prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP3: “Why does rounding 934,242 to the nearest thousand or nearest ten thousand not give a good estimate for the number of visitors next year? How would you change rounding 934,242 to the nearest unit to better estimate the number of visitors next year?”

  • Module 2, Topic E, Lesson 22: Use division and the associative property of multiplication to find factors, Launch, “When students work with a partner to find all the factors of a given large number and then share their thinking and reasoning, they are constructing viable arguments (MP3). Find as many factors of 96 as you can.” The teacher is prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP3: “Have you found all the factors of 96? How do you know for sure? Why does your strategy work? Convince your partner. What questions can you ask your partner to make sure you understand their strategy?”

  • Module 3, Topic F, Lesson 24: Solve multi-step word problems and assess the reasonableness of solutions, Learn, Solve a Word Problem and Examine Solution Paths, Classwork, Problem 2, as “students solve multi-step word problems and share their solution path and listen to and analyze their peers’ solution path for solving a word problem, they construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others (MP3). A restaurant uses 161 gallons of milk each week. A school uses 483 gallons of milk each week. How many more gallons of milk does the school use than the restaurant in 4 weeks?” The teacher is prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP3: “Why does your method work? Convince the other pair in your group. What questions can you ask the other pair to make sure you understand their method?”

  • Module 5, Topic B, Lesson 6: Represent hundredths as a place value unit, Learn, Hundredths as a Fractional Unit and a Place Value Unit, students construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others as they, “decide if fractional units are always, sometimes, or never place value units and discuss their reasoning with a partner. Use the Always Sometimes Never routine to engage students in constructing meaning and discussing their ideas.” Students are given time to think about this statement, then discuss with a partner. The teacher is prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP3: “Can you think of a situation where a fractional unit is not a place value unit? When do you think fractional units are place value units? Why?”

Indicator 2G
02/02

Materials support the intentional development of MP4: Model with mathematics; and MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for supporting the intentional development of MP4: Model with mathematics; and MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards. 

Students have opportunities to engage with MP4 and MP5 across the year and they are explicitly identified for teachers within materials in margin notes called, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice.” According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlights places in the lesson where students are engaging in or building experience with the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). Although most lessons offer opportunities for students to engage with more than one Standard for Mathematical Practice, this guidance identifies a focus MP within each lesson. The notes also provide lesson-specific information, ideas, and questions that you can use to deepen students’ engagement with the focus MP. Often, the suggested questions for a particular MP repeat. This intentional repetition supports students in understanding the MPs in different contexts.”

MP4 is identified and connected to grade-level content, and there is intentional development of the MP to meet its full intent. Students model with mathematics as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the modules. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic D, Lesson 21: Solve two-step word problems by using addition and subtraction, Learn, Two-Step Comparison Word Problem, Classwork, “When students draw tape diagrams to represent information about the miles Mia has driven, they are modeling with mathematics (MP4).” Teachers, “Display the word problem and chorally read it with the class. Mia is a bus driver. She drives 196,000 miles in two years. She drives 100,723 miles in year 1. How many fewer miles does Mia drive in year 2? Invite students to use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve the problem. Direct students to estimate how many fewer miles Mia drives in year 2 before they determine the actual answer. Circulate and observe student work. Use the following questions to advance student thinking: What can you draw to represent the number of miles she drives in year 1? Year 2? Which tape should be longer? How do you know? How can you represent the total number of miles she drives? Where is the unknown represented in the tape diagram? What letter can you use to represent the unknown? What operations will you use to find the solution? Why? What solution statement can you write? Select two or three students to share in the next segment. Purposely choose work that allows for rich discussion about using efficient subtraction strategies and using the tape diagram in different ways to find a solution.”

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 4: Represent fractions by using various fraction models, Learn,  How Many Ways, “Students model with mathematics (MP4) as they represent fractional distances by using different models, (e.g., a number line or an area model), and describe how the model represents the fractions.” Teachers, “Present the situation: Gabe’s home is 410\frac{4}{10} miles from his school. To get to school, Gabe runs 710\frac{7}{10} miles and walks 210\frac{2}{10} miles. Invite students to work with a partner to draw as many different models as they can to represent the total distance of  410\frac{4}{10} miles. Select two or three pairs to share their work. Purposefully choose work that allows for rich discussion about the various models used to represent 410\frac{4}{10}. The student work samples shown demonstrate drawing a tape diagram, a number line, a circular fraction model, and an area model.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP4: “How can you write the total distance Gabe walked and ran mathematically? What key ideas about how far Gabe ran and walked do you need to include in your model? How does your model show 410=210+210\frac{4}{10}=\frac{2}{10}+\frac{2}{10}?”  

  • Module 5, Topic D, Lesson 14: Solve word problems with tenths and hundredths, Learn, Solve a Comparison Word Problem, Classwork, “When students use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve problems with decimal numbers, they are modeling with mathematics (MP4). Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve the problem. Write the solution statement by using a decimal number. A wall in Mrs. Smith’s living room is 0.78 meters longer than a wall in her bedroom. The wall in Mrs. Smith’s bedroom is 4.32 meters long. How long is the wall in her living room?” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP4: “What key ideas in the problem do you need to make sure are in your diagram? How can you improve your diagram to better represent the context? How can you simplify the problem to help estimate the answer to the problem?”

MP5 is identified and connected to grade-level content, and there is intentional development of the MP to meet its full intent. Students choose tools strategically as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the modules. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic B, Lesson 9: Solve multiplication word problems, Learn, Exit Ticket, “When students draw to represent a multiplicative comparison situation and then select a method to multiply, they use appropriate tools strategically (MP5).” Students choose between different strategies to solve word problems, for example: Multiply Tens and Ones, Distributive Property, and Compensation. “Use the Read-Draw-Write process to solve the problem. A puppy weighs 18 pounds. Jayla says her dog weighs 4 times as much as the puppy. What is the weight of Jayla’s dog?”

  • Module 4, Topic C, Lesson 14: Compare fractions with related denominators, Learn, Justify a Comparison, “Students use appropriate tools strategically (MP5) when they select a method and use either a number line, an equation, or another model or set of words to justify a comparison between two fractions with related units.” Teachers, “Present the fractions: 26\frac{2}{6}___ 312\frac{3}{12}. Give students 2 minutes to use pictures, words, or numbers to justify a comparison of the fractions. Circulate as students work. Identify two students that showed their thinking in different ways. Purposefully choose work that allows for rich discussion about connections between methods. Facilitate a class discussion. Invite students to share their thinking with the whole group. Ask questions such as the following that invite students to make connections and encourage them to ask questions of their own: How does your method help you compare the fractions? How is your method similar to or different from your partner’s method? Which fraction did you rename? Why? How did related units help you find a common denominator? Repeat the process with 59\frac{5}{9}___23\frac{2}{3}.”

  • Module 5, Topic C, Lesson 10: Use pictorial representations to compare decimal numbers. Launch, “When students choose to represent a decimal number with an area model, a tape diagram, a number line, or place value disks and explain the reason for their selection, they are using appropriate tools strategically (MP5).” Teachers, “Introduce the Take a Stand routine to the class. Draw students’ attention to the signs hanging in the classroom that say Area Model, Tape Diagram, Number Line, and Place Value Disks. Present the decimal number 0.5. Invite students to stand beside the sign that best describes the way they would prefer to represent the number pictorially. When all students are standing near a sign, allow 1 minute for groups to discuss the reasons why they chose that sign.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP5: “Why did you choose to use the pictorial representation you did? Which pictorial representation would be the most helpful to you to compare numbers in decimal form? Why?”

Indicator 2H
02/02

Materials attend to the intentional development of MP6: Attend to precision; and attend to the specialized language of mathematics for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for supporting the intentional development of MP6: Attend to precision; and attend to the specialized language of mathematics, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards. 

Students have opportunities to engage with MP6 across the year and it is explicitly identified for teachers within materials in margin notes called, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice''. According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlights places in the lesson where students are engaging in or building experience with the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). Although most lessons offer opportunities for students to engage with more than one Standard for Mathematical Practice, this guidance identifies a focus MP within each lesson. The notes also provide lesson-specific information, ideas, and questions that you can use to deepen students’ engagement with the focus MP. Often, the suggested questions for a particular MP repeat. This intentional repetition supports students in understanding the MPs in different contexts.”

Students attend to precision in mathematics, in connection to grade-level content, as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the units. Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic C, Lesson 13: Round to the nearest ten thousand and hundred thousand, Learn, Round Six-Digit Numbers to the Nearest Ten Thousand, “When students round a six-digit number to the nearest ten thousand they are attending to precision (MP6).” Teachers “Invite students to work with a partner to draw a number line to plot 634,921 and round it to the nearest ten thousand. Circulate as students work and provide support as needed by asking questions such as the following: How many ten thousands are in 634,921? What is 1 more ten thousand than 63 ten thousands? What is halfway between 63 ten thousands and 64 ten thousands? How do we write 63 ten thousands and 64 ten thousands in standard form? What is halfway between 630,000 and 640,000? How do you know? Where do we plot 634,921? Which ten thousand is 634,921 closer to? What statement do we write to show 634,921 rounded to the nearest ten thousand? What is 634,200 rounded to the nearest ten thousand? How do you know? Invite students to turn and talk about how they find which 2 ten thousands the number they are rounding is between.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP6: “When rounding 634,921 to the nearest ten thousand, what steps do you need to be extra careful with? Where might you make an error when rounding 634,921 to the nearest ten thousand?” 

  • Module 2, Topic C, Lesson 14: Divide two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers by using place value strategies, Land, Exit Ticket, “When students represent division on a place value chart and record the division in equations by using the break apart and distribute strategy, they are attending to precision (MP6). Draw on the place value chart and complete the equations to find 84÷484\div4. 84÷4=84\div4=( ___tens +___ ones )÷4\div4; = (___ tens÷4\div4) + (___ ones÷4\div4); = __ + ___; = ___.” A two column table labeled tens and ones is provided.

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 3: Decompose fractions into a sum of fractions, Learn, Decompose a Fraction into Non-Unit Fractions, “Students attend to precision (MP6) as they decompose a fraction into a sum of unit fractions and then group the unit fractions to show a different decomposition.” Teachers, “Distribute one paper strip to each student. Guide students to fold the strip into eighths. What equation can we write to show 78\frac{7}{8} as a sum of unit fractions? Write the equation. Invite students to decompose 78\frac{7}{8} into two parts and shade the two parts with two different colors. Circulate as students work and identify three students who shade the parts in different ways. Gather the class and invite one of the selected students to share their work. Guide a discussion to relate decomposing 78\frac{7}{8} into unit fractions to decomposing 78\frac{7}{8} into non-unit fractions. How many eighths are represented by the first color? Invite students to turn and talk about how to group the unit fractions in the equation to show 28\frac{2}{8}. Place parentheses in the equation to group the first two unit fractions. How many eighths are represented by the second color? Place parentheses in the equation to group the unit fractions to show 58\frac{5}{8}. How could we record this decomposition as a sum of non-unit fractions? Write the equation. Invite students to turn and talk about how the shaded strip relates to the sum of fractions. Repeat the process with a few more student work samples to show the decomposition of 78\frac{7}{8} in different ways. Give partners 1 minute to record an equation on the back of their paper strip to represent the way they decomposed 78\frac{7}{8} into a sum of fractions. Invite students to turn and talk about how decomposing a fraction into unit fractions and non-unit fractions is similar and different.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP6: “How does your tape diagram represent a decomposition of 78\frac{7}{8} into a sum of two fractions? What details are important to think about when using a tape diagram to represent decomposing 78\frac{7}{8} into two parts? Where might you make an error when writing an equation to show the decomposition represented in your tape diagram?”

Students attend to the specialized language of mathematics, in connection to grade-level content, as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the units. Examples include:

  • Module 4, Topic B, Lesson 10: Generate equivalent fractions with larger units, Learn, Demonstrate Equivalence, Classwork, Problem 5, “When students draw an area model, partition it, and use division to demonstrate fraction equivalence, they are attending to precision (MP6). 5. Draw an area model and use division to demonstrate the equivalence. 610=35\frac{6}{10}=\frac{3}{5}. Give pairs 2 minutes to demonstrate the equivalence with an area model and division. What number did you divide the numerator and denominator in 610\frac{6}{10} by? Why? 2 is a factor of both 6 and 10. How can that help you find a fraction equivalent to 610\frac{6}{10}?” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP6: “What details are important to think about as you decide how to partition the area model to demonstrate that 610\frac{6}{10} and 35\frac{3}{5} are equivalent? When using division to express this equivalence, what steps do you need to be extra careful with?”

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 3: Draw right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles, Learn, Draw and Name an Angle, Classwork, Problem 1, “When students draw different-size angles and name them, they are attending to precision (MP6).” Teachers, “Direct students to problem 1 in their books and prompt them to use their straightedges to draw an angle using LM\vec{LM}. Draw an angle with the given ray. Label the angle. 1. Use LK\vec{LK} to draw KLM\angle{KLM}. As students work, circulate and ensure that students are using a straightedge to construct the angle and are labeling their drawings (e.g., labeling point K on LK\vec{LK}, drawing an arc at the vertex to indicate the angle, or drawing a small square to indicate a right angle if a right angle is drawn). After students finish drawing, invite them to turn and talk about how their angles are similar to and different from their partners’ angles. Prompt students to use the terms right, acute, obtuse, and straight angle to describe their angles as they share.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP6: “What details should be considered when drawing and naming an angle? When naming an angle, what steps need to be precise? Why?”

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 4: Identify, define, and draw perpendicular lines, Learn, Perpendicular Sides in Polygons, “When students identify or draw and use proper notation for perpendicular lines, rays, and line segments, they are attending to precision (MP6).” Teachers, “Invite students to remove Identify Sides in Polygons from their books and insert it into their whiteboards. Direct students to polygon 1. Ask students to trace AD\overline{AD} and AB\overline{AB} in polygon 1, and then use their right-angle tool to check or a right angle formed by the two sides. What can we say about AD\overline{AD} and AB\overline{AB}? How do you know? Direct students to mark the right angle with a small square. Write: ADAB\overline{AD}\perp\overline{AB}. Invite students to write ADAB\overline{AD}\perp\overline{AB} next to the polygon. Have partners work together to find all pairs of perpendicular sides in polygon 1 and record their findings with symbols. Invite students to share each pair of perpendicular sides. Direct students to work with a partner to identify and record as many pairs of perpendicular sides as they can in polygon 2. Which sides are perpendicular in polygon 2? Are any other sides perpendicular? How do you know? Repeat the process with polygon 3. Invite students to turn and talk about how to find and name two perpendicular sides in a polygon.” There is a polygon (rectangle) labeled ABCD shown. Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP6: “How can we write BC\overline{BC} is perpendicular to CD\overline{CD} using the new symbol we learned? When drawing perpendicular lines, what steps do you need to be careful with? Why?”

Indicator 2I
02/02

Materials support the intentional development of MP7: Look for and make use of structure; and MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for supporting the intentional development of MP7: Look for and make use of structure; and MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning, for students, in connection to the grade-level content standards, as expected by the mathematical practice standards. 

Students have opportunities to engage with MP7 and MP8 across the year and they are explicitly identified for teachers within materials in margin notes called, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice.” According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Promoting the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlights places in the lesson where students are engaging in or building experience with the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). Although most lessons offer opportunities for students to engage with more than one Standard for Mathematical Practice, this guidance identifies a focus MP within each lesson. The notes also provide lesson-specific information, ideas, and questions that you can use to deepen students’ engagement with the focus MP. Often, the suggested questions for a particular MP repeat. This intentional repetition supports students in understanding the MPs in different contexts.”

MP7 is identified and connected to grade-level content, and there is intentional development of the MP to meet its full intent. Students look for and make use of structure as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the modules. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic A, Lesson 1: Multiply multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers by using the associative property of multiplication, Learn, Multiply by Using Unit Form, “When students represent 6×306\times30 on a place value chart and rewrite the expression in unit form to help find the product, they are looking for and making use of structure (MP7).” Teachers, “direct students to work with a partner to draw a place value chart to represent 6×306\times30, write the expression in unit form, and find the product. What fact did you use to help you find the product?  Say the product of 6 and 30 in unit form. What is 18 tens in standard form? Invite students to turn and talk about how unit form and the facts they know can help them multiply with multiples of 10.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP7: “How can you use what the unit form and the place value representation of 6×306\times30 have in common to help you find the product? How can you use multiplication facts you know to help you find  6×306\times30?”

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 1: Decompose whole numbers into a sum of unit fractions, Learn, Tape Diagram and Number Line, “As students decompose a whole number into unit fractions by using a tape diagram and a number line and write an equation showing the decomposition as a sum of unit fractions, they are looking for and making use of structure (MP7).” Teachers, “Display the picture of the tape diagram of 1. The tape represents 1.” An image of a tape Diagram of 1 is shown. “How is 1 decomposed? Invite pairs to write an equation to show how 1 is decomposed into unit fractions. What equation did  you write? Display the picture of the tape diagram of 2.” An image of a tape diagram of 2 is shown. “What does the tape diagram represent? Where is 1 represented in the tape diagram? How do you know? Invite students to think–pair–share about how 2 is decomposed. Ask pairs to write an equation with parentheses to show how 2 is decomposed. How did you use parentheses in your equation? Invite students to remove Number Line 0 to 2 from their books and insert it into their whiteboards. Where do you see a length of 1 on the number line? How could we use the number line to help us draw our own tape diagram with the same length of 1? Draw a tape diagram above the number line from 0 to 1 as students do the same.” An image of a number line is shown. “How can we partition the tape diagram and number line into fourths? Guide students in partitioning the tape diagram into fourths.What fraction does each part of the tape diagram represent? What fraction does each part of the tape diagram represent? Where do you see 1 fourth on the number line?Trace the length from 0 to 14\frac{1}{4} and label the first tick mark. Direct students to do the same. Invite students to write an equation below the tape diagram and number line to show how 1 is decomposed. Write the equation.” Image of a number line with the points 0, 1, 2 labeled is shown. “What can we do to our drawing to show 2 decomposed into fourths?How will the equation change? Give students 1 minute to extend their drawings and rewrite the equation to show 2 as a sum of fourths. Then show the completed tape diagram, number line, and equation.” Image of a number line with the points 0, 1, 2 labeled is shown. “Invite students to turn and talk about how the number line and tape diagram represent the equation.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP7: “How is the decomposition of 1 by using a tape diagram and by using a number line related? How does this help you write an equation showing 1 as a sum of unit fractions? How is decomposing 2 into thirds similar to decomposing 1 into thirds?”

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 2: Identify right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles, Learn, Use a Right-Angle Tool, Classwork, Problem 1, “Students look for and make use of structure (MP7) as they use their right-angle tool to determine whether an angle is right, acute, or obtuse.” Teachers, “Direct students to problem 1 in their books. Read the problem chorally with the class. Use your right-angle tool to classify the angle as a right angle, an acute angle, or an obtuse angle. Trace the rays of the angle with your finger, beginning at P, moving to the vertex, R, and then extending to S. We can call this PRS\angle{PRS}. Write PRS\angle{PRS}. Invite students to think–pair–share about how else the angle could be named. Write SRP\angle{SRP}. When we name an angle using the names of three points, we must list the points in order. We cannot call this RSP\angle{RSP} or RPS\angle{RPS}. There is also a third way to name the angle. You can sometimes name an angle by its vertex, or the endpoint of the two rays. What is the vertex of this angle? Write R\angle{R}. Support student understanding of the term vertex by inviting them to label the vertex of R\angle{R}. Write vertex and draw a line pointing to the vertex. Invite students to do the same. Does R\angle{R} look like a right angle? Let’s use our right-angle tool to check. Use the right-angle tool to show students how to determine whether R\angle{R} is the same size as, smaller than, or larger than a right angle. Think aloud and use precise language as you use the right-angle tool. I can line up the bottom of the right-angle tool with RS\vec{RS}. Then I slide the right-angle tool so that its corner is at the vertex R. Prompt students to use their right-angle tools to do the same. Is R\angle{R} the same size as, smaller than, or larger than a right angle? How do you know? Point to the square at the vertex of the angle. We know from learning about squares and rectangles that this square at the vertex identifies this angle as a right angle. Direct students to problems 2 and 3. Point to the arc of each angle. This is an arc. An arc is a symbol that we use to identify which angle we are looking at. Write arc and draw a line pointing to the arc in problem 2. Invite students to do the same in their books.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP7: “How are acute and obtuse angles related? How can that help you identify them? How can you use what all angles have in common to help identify right, acute, and obtuse angles?”

MP8 is identified and connected to grade-level content, and there is intentional development of the MP to meet its full intent. Students look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning as they work with support of the teacher and independently throughout the modules. Examples include: 

  • Module 2, Topic D, Lesson 17: Express measurements of length in terms of smaller units, Learn, Conversion Strategies, “Students look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning (MP8) as they determine relationships between customary units.” Teachers, “Write 6 yards = ____ feet. Invite students to work with a partner to use a number line and a conversion table to help them complete the equation. One partner can draw and complete the number line and the other partner can draw and complete a conversion table. How many feet are in 6 yards? What multiplication equation represents how to convert 6 yards to feet? Record the multiplication equation. Point to each factor and the product as you ask the following questions. What does 6 represent? What does 3 represent? What does 18 represent? Display the picture of the ribbon. How has your thinking changed about the lengths labeled on the spool of ribbon? Invite students to turn and talk about different strategies they can use to convert customary length measurements.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP8: “What is similar about your reasoning when converting feet to inches and when converting yards to feet? What patterns do you notice when converting feet to inches or yards to feet? How can that help you convert more efficiently?” 

  • Module 5, Topic A, Lesson 2: Decompose 1 one and express tenths in fraction form and decimal form, Learn, Tenths on a Number Line, Classwork, Problem 2, “When students repeatedly label tenths in fraction form and decimal form on the number line to make sense of decimal form, they are looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning (MP8).” Teachers, “Use the meter stick to draw tick marks and partition the number line into tenths. Direct students to problem 2. Invite them to label the tenths along the bottom of the number line in fraction form as you do the same. 2. Label the number line. Label 110\frac{1}{10}  as 0.1 above the number line. Invite students to do the same. This is another way to write 1 tenth. We can read this number as zero point one or as 1 tenth. Repeat the process with 0.2 and 0.3. Point to the next tick mark. How do you think we will label this tick mark? Why? Invite students to label 0.4 through 0.9 as you do the same. Point to the fractions written below the number line. What is the same about all the fractions? A fraction with a denominator of 10 is an example of a decimal fraction. Decimal fractions can be written by using a decimal point. Point to the numbers above the number line. A number that is written with a decimal point is written in decimal form. A number written in decimal form is called a decimal number. We can write fractions with the unit tenths in decimal form. We can write a number in decimal form or fraction form. Both are different ways to record the same number. Invite students to turn and talk about how writing tenths in fraction form and in decimal form is similar and different.” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP8: “What patterns did you notice when you labeled tenths in fraction form and decimal form? What is similar about how a number is written in fraction form and decimal form?”

  • Module 6, Topic B, Lesson 8: Use a circular protractor to recognize a 1°1\degree angle as a turn through ​​1360\frac{1}{360} of a circle, Learn, Benchmark Angles, Classwork, Problem 1, “When students make and then measure benchmark angles they are looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning (MP8). 1. Use your angle-maker tool and protractor to make and measure each benchmark angle. Then complete the table.” The teacher then directs students to work with a partner and use their angle-maker tools and protractors to create the remaining benchmark angles and complete the table. As students work, circulate and check for understanding. After students finish working, direct them to look at the Angle Measure column. Do you notice a pattern?” Teachers are prompted to ask the following questions to promote MP8: “When you make benchmark angles, does anything repeat? How can that help you? What patterns do you notice as you make and measure benchmark angles? How can that help you find the angle measures of these angles?” 

Overview of Gateway 3

Usability

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for Usability. The materials meet expectations for Criterion 1, Teacher Supports; partially meet expectations for Criterion 2, Assessment; and meet expectations for Criterion 3, Student Supports.

Criterion 3.1: Teacher Supports

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The program includes opportunities for teachers to effectively plan and utilize materials with integrity and to further develop their own understanding of the content.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for Teacher Supports. The materials: provide teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for enacting the student and ancillary materials; contain adult-level explanations and examples of the more complex grade-level concepts and concepts beyond the current grade so that teachers can improve their own knowledge of the subject; include standards correlation information that explains the role of the standards in the context of the overall series; provide explanations of the instructional approaches of the program and identification of the research-based strategies; and provide a comprehensive list of supplies needed to support instructional activities. 

Indicator 3A
02/02

Materials provide teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for how to enact the student materials and ancillary materials, with specific attention to engaging students in order to guide their mathematical development.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for providing teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for how to enact the student materials and ancillary materials, with specific attention to engaging students in order to guide their mathematical development.

Materials provide comprehensive guidance that will assist teachers in presenting the student and ancillary materials. These are found in a variety of sections within the Implementation Guide, including the Overview, Why, Achievement Descriptors Overview, and Lesson Structure. Examples include:

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside Teach, Module-Level Components, Overview, “Your Teach book begins with the Overview, a topic-by-topic summary that shows the development of learning throughout the module. It also provides connections to work done before and after the module, helping you understand the module’s place in the overall development of learning in and across the grade levels.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside Teach, Module-Level Components, Why, “The Why section gives insight into the decisions made during the writing of the module. This insight helps you understand the underlying structure of the module, flow of the content, and coherence of the different parts of the curriculum.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside Teach, Module-Level Components, Achievement Descriptors, “The Achievement Descriptors: Overview section is a helpful guide that describes what Achievement Descriptors (ADs) are and briefly explains how to use them. It identifies specific ADs for the module, with more guidance provided in the Achievement Descriptors: Proficiency Indicators resource at the end of each Teach book.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside Teach, Lesson Structure, “Each lesson is structured in four sections: Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. Lessons are designed for one 60-minute instructional period. Fluency provides distributed practice with previously learned material. Launch creates an accessible entry point to the day’s learning through activities that build context and often create productive struggle that leads to a need for the learning that follows. Learn presents new learning related to the lesson objective, usually through a series of instructional segments. This lesson component takes most of the instructional time. Land helps you facilitate a brief discussion to close the lesson and provides students with an opportunity to complete the Exit Ticket.”

Materials include sufficient and useful annotations and suggestions that are presented within the context of the specific lessons. This guidance can be found for teachers within boxes called Differentiation, UDL, and Teacher Notes. The Implementation Guide states, “There are six types of instructional guidance that appear in the margin notes. These notes provide information about facilitation, differentiation, and coherence. Teacher Notes may enhance mathematical understanding, explain pedagogical choices, five background information, or help identify common misconceptions. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) suggestions offer strategies and scaffolds that address learner variance. These suggestions promote flexibility with engagement, representation, and action and expression, the three UDL principles described by CAST. These strategies and scaffolds are additional suggestions to complement the curriculum’s overall alignment with the UDL Guidelines.” Examples include:

  • Module 3, Topic B, Lesson 4: Apply place value strategies to divide hundreds, tens, and ones, Learn, Draw on the Place Value Chart to Divide, UDL: Action & Expression, “Consider providing equations with blanks for students to use. This can help reduce the fine-motor demands of writing. Students draw on a place value chart and write an equation to divide hundreds, tens, and ones. Direct students to remove Place Value Chart to Hundreds from their books and insert it in their whiteboards. Write 846÷2=846\div2= ____.”

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 6: Rename mixed numbers as fractions greater than 1, Learn, Choose a Model, UDL: Representation, “Consider activating background knowledge of different models students can use to represent whole numbers and fractions. Create a list students can refer to when they rename mixed numbers as fractions greater than 1. Area model, Tape diagram, Number bond, Number line, Equations.”

  • Module 5, Topic A, Lesson 4: Write mixed numbers in decimal form with tenths, Learn, Mixed Numbers and Decimal Form on a Number Line, Differentiation: Support, “Consider using the following questions to support students as they represent the given number on a number line: What whole numbers is the number between? How does that help you draw and label a number line? What fractional unit do you need to partition each whole number into? How do you know? How can you use the unit form to help you locate the number on the number line? How can you use the number line to help you write the number as a mixed number and in decimal form?”

  • Module 6, Topic A, Lesson 6: Relate geometric figures to a real-world context, Fluency, Show Me Geometric Figures: Lines and Line Segments, Teacher Notes, “Consider asking students to whisper to their partner how each gesture represents the geometric figure.” For example, after “Show me parallel lines, say, How do you think our arms show parallel lines? Whisper your idea to your partner.”

Indicator 3B
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Materials contain adult-level explanations and examples of the more complex grade-level/course-level concepts and concepts beyond the current course so that teachers can improve their own knowledge of the subject.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for containing adult-level explanations and examples of the more complex grade/course-level concepts and concepts beyond the current course so that teachers can improve their own knowledge of the subject.

Materials consistently contain adult-level explanations, examples of the more complex grade/ course-level concepts, and concepts beyond the course within Topic Overviews and/or Module Overviews. According to page 5 of the Grade 3-5  Implementation Guide, “Your Teach book begins with the Overview, a topic-by-topic summary that shows the development of learning throughout the module. It also provides connections to work done before and after the module, helping you understand the module’s place in the overall development of learning in and across the grade levels.” Page 7 outlines the purpose of the Topic Overview, “Each topic begins with a Topic Overview that is a summary of the development of learning in that topic. It typically includes information about how learning connects to previous or upcoming content.” Examples include:

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction, Module Overview, Why, “Why is the vertical number line used for rounding numbers? The vertical number line is used to help support conceptual understanding of rounding. In grade 3, students first see the vertical number line as an extension of reading a vertical measurement scale. Using the context of temperature, students identify the tens (i.e., benchmarks) between which a temperature falls, the halfway mark between the benchmark temperatures, and the benchmark temperature the actual temperature is closer to. Students then generalize to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. In grade 4, students round numbers with up to 6 digits to any place. They continue to use the vertical number line as a supportive model. Labeling the benchmark numbers and halfway tick mark in both standard form and unit form helps emphasize the unit to which a number is being rounded. This way, the place values line up vertically, helping students see the relationship between the numbers. The pictorial support of the vertical number line when rounding is eventually removed, but the conceptual understanding of place value remains as students round mentally. These experiences with the vertical number line prepare students for representing ratios with vertical double number lines and graphing pairs of values in the coordinate plane.”

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Module Overview, Why, “Why is the distributive property used in reference to multiplication and the break apart and distribute strategy used in reference to division? In grade 3, students use the break apart and distribute strategy ×\times with multiplication and division. In grade 4, the distributive property is formally named, and students recognize that the distributive property relates multiplication and addition. For example, 7×23=7×(20+3)=(7×20)+(7×3)7\times23=7\times(20+3)=(7\times20)+(7\times3). The distributive property is more formally the distributive property of multiplication over addition. Thus, the distributive property does not apply to division. With division, the break apart and distribute strategy continues to be referenced and describes how students approach a division problem. They break apart the total into smaller parts and then divide each part by the divisor. For example, 72÷8=(40÷8)+(32÷8)72\div8=(40\div8)+(32\div8). In grade 5, students learn that dividing by n is equivalent to multiplying by 1n\frac{1}{n}, so the distributive property can be applied. For example, 

72÷8=72×18=(40+32)×18=(40×18)+(32×18)=(40÷8)+(32÷8)72\div8=72\times\frac{1}{8}=(40+32)\times\frac{1}{8}=(40\times\frac{1}{8})+(32\times\frac{1}{8})=(40\div8)+(32\div8).”

  • Module 4: Foundations for Fraction Operations, Module Overview, Why, “Why are so many addition and subtraction strategies used? The strategies used for adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers in topics D and E reflect the strategies students use in grades 1, 2, and 3 to add and subtract whole numbers. These strategies reinforce the idea of fractions as numbers—we can perform operations with fractions similar to the way we perform operations with whole numbers. Because fractions are numbers, they can be composed and decomposed. Students apply the part total relationship found in addition and subtraction problems to compose and decompose the units of the parts and total. Fluency means being accurate and efficient and flexibly applying strategies to solve problems. A strategy may be efficient for solving one problem but time consuming for another. Students analyze problems and select efficient strategies, many of which develop into mental math over time. They select a model to record their work in a way that makes sense to them. Students are not expected to master all the strategies and models taught in module 4 topics D and E. Rather, they are expected to make informed decisions about which strategy to use on a problem-by-problem basis.”

Indicator 3C
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Materials include standards correlation information that explains the role of the standards in the context of the overall series.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for including standards correlation information that explains the role of the standards in the context of the overall series. 

Correlation information and explanations of standards are present for the mathematics addressed throughout the grade level. The Overview section includes Achievement Descriptors and these serve to identify, describe, and explain how to use the standards. Each module, topic, and lesson overview includes content standards and achievement descriptors addressed. Examples include:

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Module Overview, Achievement Descriptors, Proficiency Indicator, “4.Mod3.AD2, Multiply whole numbers of up to four digits by one-digit whole numbers. (4.NBT.B.5)” 

  • Module 4, Topic B, Equivalent Fractions, Description, “Students generate equivalent fractions and equivalent mixed numbers. They decompose fractional units to find an equivalent fraction with smaller units and record their work with multiplication. They compose fractional units to find an equivalent fraction with larger units and record their work with division. Students use area models, as well as tape diagrams and number lines, to represent fractions and compose or decompose fractional units to generate equivalent fractions.” Achievement Descriptors and Standards are listed for the module in the tab labeled, “Standards."

  • Module 5, Topic C, Lesson 10: Use pictorial representations to compare decimal numbers. Achievement Descriptors and Standards, “4.Mod5.AD4 Compare two decimal numbers to hundredths and justify the conclusions (4.NF.C.7).”

  • Module 6, Topic C, Determine Unknown Angle Measures, Description, “Students recognize and apply the additive nature of angle measure to find the unknown measures of angles within figures without using a protractor. They use what is known and the part–total relationship to determine an unknown angle measure when right angles, straight angles, and angles of known measures are decomposed. Students extend the strategy to find the measures of multiple unknown angle measures around a point.” Achievement Descriptors and Standards are listed for the module in the tab labeled, “Standards."

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Materials provide strategies for informing all stakeholders, including students, parents, or caregivers about the program and suggestions for how they can help support student progress and achievement.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide strategies for informing stakeholders including students, parents or caregivers about the program and suggestions for how they can help support student progress and achievement. 

The program provides a Eureka Math² Family Resources webpage, Eureka Math² | Family Resources (greatminds.org), that families can use to find a variety of information about the program. Additionally, another webpage, Support For Students And Families (greatminds.org), provides support for families using Eureka Math². Examples include: 

  • Letters for each unit are available for the teacher to share with families. Family Math Letters (Levels K–5) states, “Our Family Math letters provide a topic overview that includes a content narrative, images of models and strategies, and key terminology. It also includes ideas for topic-related math activities that may be done at home or in school. Family Math letters are only included for levels K–5. In levels 3–5, they are found in the Apply book.” 

  • Families also have access to the online program, allowing them to see lessons and assignments. Access Your Student’s Eureka Math² Materials via the Great Minds Digital Platform states, “There’s more to Eureka Math² than can fit on a printed page. Your student's teacher will be sending a username and password home to access Eureka Math² online. On this platform, students will have the ability to do the following: View their virtual ‘to-do’ list of assignments and assessments, Participate in live digital lessons during class View past work, including teacher feedback, in their online student locker, Access virtual manipulatives, The Family Math letters, Practice, Practice Partners, and Recaps are only available in the student experience when those pages are assigned by the teacher.”

  • Families can support students with a resource that includes additional grade-level problems aligned to lessons. Practice (Level 1–Algebra I) states, “Practice problems for each lesson include mixed practice of related skills. This helps students solidify their conceptual understanding and procedural skills, transfer knowledge to new applications, and build fluency. Each Practice is structured as two pages. The front page includes problems that represent learning from class that day. The second page includes Remember problems. These problems help students recall previously learned concepts and skills. While Practice problems related to the day’s lesson help solidify new learning, Remember problems keep students sharp with familiar concepts. In level 6–Algebra I, Practice is included in the Learn book.”

  • Home support, “Practice Partners (Levels 1–5), is also available.Each Practice has a parallel supporting Practice Partner that shows problems like those worked in class and an example of the thinking that helps students solve those problems. Practice Partners serve as a useful tool for students to solve the Practice and Remember problems, as well as a guide for families who may be supporting their student with the Practice and Remember problems at home.”

Indicator 3E
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Materials provide explanations of the instructional approaches of the program and identification of the research-based strategies.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for providing explanations of the instructional approaches of the program and identification of the research-based strategies. 

The Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide includes a variety of references to both the instructional approaches and research-based strategies. Examples include:

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, What’s Included, “Eureka Math2 is a comprehensive math program built on the foundational idea that math is best understood as an unfolding story where students learn by connecting new learning to prior knowledge. Consistent math models, content that engages students in productive struggle, and coherence across lessons, modules, and grades provide entry points for all learners to access grade-level mathematics.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Lesson Facilitation, “Eureka Math2 lessons are designed to let students drive the learning through sharing their thinking and work. Varied activities and suggested styles of facilitation blend guided discovery with direct instruction. The result allows teachers to systematically develop concepts, skills, models, and discipline-specific language while maximizing student engagement.”

  • Implement, Suggested Resources, Instructional Routines, “Eureka Math2 features a set of instructional routines that optimize equity by increasing access, engagement, confidence, and students’ sense of belonging. The following is true about Eureka Math2 instructional routines: Each routine presents a set of teachable steps so students can develop as much ownership over the routine as the teacher. The routines are flexible and may be used in additional math lessons or in other subject areas. Each routine aligns to the Stanford Language Design Principles (see Works Cited): support sense-making, optimize output, cultivate conversation, maximize linguistic and cognitive meta awareness.” Works Cited, “Smith, Margaret S., Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin. The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Elementary Classroom. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Mathematics; Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2018. Zwiers, Jeff, Jack Dieckmann, Sara Rutherford-Quach, Vinci Daro, Renae Skarin, Steven Weiss, and James Malamut. Principles for the Design of Mathematics Curricula: Promoting Language and Content Development. Retrieved from Stanford University, UL/SCALE website: http://ell.stanford.edu/content/mathematics-resources additional-resources, 2017.”

Each Module Overview includes an explanation of instructional approaches and reference to the research. For example, the Why section explains module writing decisions. According to the Implementation Guide for Grade 4, “The Why section gives insight into the decisions made during the writing of the module. This insight helps you understand the underlying structure of the module, flow of the content, and coherence of the different parts of the curriculum.” The Implementation Guide also states, “Works Cited, A robust knowledge base underpins the structure and content framework of Eureka Math². A listing of the key research appears in the Works Cited for each module.” Examples include:

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction, Module Overview, Why, “Why does the place value module begin with a topic on multiplicative comparisons? Beginning with multiplicative comparison enables students to build on their prior knowledge of multiplication from grade 3 and provides a foundation upon which students can explore the relationships between numbers and place value units. This placement also activates grade 3 knowledge of multiplication and division facts within 100 and provides students with opportunities to continue building fluency with the facts in preparation for multiplication and division in modules 2 and 3. Students are familiar with additive comparison—relating numbers in terms of how many more or how many less. Multiplicative comparison—relating numbers as times as many—is a new way to compare numbers. Students use multiplicative comparison throughout the year to relate measurement units, whole numbers, and fractions. This important relationship between factors, where one factor tells how much larger the product is compared to the other factor, is foundational to ratios and proportional relationships in later grades. Taking time to develop this understanding across the grade 4 modules sets students up for success with interpreting multiplication as scaling in grade 5 and applying or finding a scale factor in scale drawings, dilations, and similar figures.”

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Module Overview, Why, “Why is vertical form introduced alongside the place value chart for multiplication and division? Similar to what students experience with addition and subtraction, vertical form is introduced alongside the place value chart for multiplication and division to support conceptual understanding and the transition from a pictorial representation to a written representation. Each action represented in the place value chart (e.g., renaming units, adding or subtracting like units, distributing units, finding the total quantity of each unit) has a direct connection to a recording within vertical form. As students become proficient with recording in vertical form, they internalize the process and no longer require drawing on the place value chart to find the unknown or explain their work. Additionally, students not yet fluent with multiplication and division facts may find the place value chart helpful in keeping track of their calculations within vertical form.”

Indicator 3F
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Materials provide a comprehensive list of supplies needed to support instructional activities.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for providing a comprehensive list of supplies needed to support instructional activities. 

Each module includes a tab, “Materials” where directions state, “The following materials are needed to implement this module. The suggested quantities are based on a class of 24 students and one teacher.” Additionally, each lesson includes a section, “Lesson at a Glance” where supplies are listed for the teacher and students. Examples include:

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Module Overview, Materials, “1 Chart paper, tablet, 25 Personal whiteboards, 25 Colored pencils (red and blue), 25 Personal whiteboard erasers, 25 Crayons (red, green, and blue), 25 Eureka Math2™ place value disks set, ones to millions, 25 Dry-erase markers, 1 Projection device, 24 Learn books, 25 Rulers, 1 Meter stick, 1 Teach book, 27 Paper strips, 1"×12"1"\times12", 1 Teacher computer or device, 25 Pencils.”

  • Module 4, Topic B, Lesson 7: Write mixed numbers in decimal form with hundredths,  Materials, “Teacher: Open Number Line (in the teacher edition). Students: Open Number Line (in the student book), Deci-disks set (1 per student pair). Lesson Preparation: Consider whether to remove Open Number Line from the student books and place inside whiteboards in advance or have students prepare them during the lesson. Gather at least 5 ones disks, 6 tenths disks, and 7 hundredths disks for each student pair. Review the Math Past resource to support delivery of Land.”

  • Module 6, Topic B, Lesson 8: Use a circular protractor to recognize a 1° angle as a turn through 1360\frac{1}{360}​​ of a circle, Materials, “Teacher: Circular Protractor, Angle-maker tool. Students: Circular Protractor, Angle-maker tool. Lesson Preparation:Consider whether to remove Circular Protractor from the student books in advance or have students tear them out during the lesson. Gather the angle-maker tools created in lesson 7.”

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This is not an assessed indicator in Mathematics.

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This is not an assessed indicator in Mathematics.

Criterion 3.2: Assessment

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The program includes a system of assessments identifying how materials provide tools, guidance, and support for teachers to collect, interpret, and act on data about student progress towards the standards.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 partially meet expectations for Assessment. The materials identify the content standards assessed in formal assessments, but do not identify the mathematical practices for some of the formal assessments. The materials provide multiple opportunities to determine students' learning and sufficient guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance, but do not provide specific suggestions for following-up with students. The materials include opportunities for students to demonstrate the full intent of grade-level standards and mathematical practices across the series.

Indicator 3I
01/02

Assessment information is included in the materials to indicate which standards are assessed.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 partially meet expectations for having assessment information included in the materials to indicate which standards are assessed. The materials identify the standards assessed for all of the formal assessments, but the materials do not identify the practices assessed for some of the formal assessments.

According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Core Assessment Components, Exit Tickets (p. 47), “Exit Tickets are short, paper-based assessments that close lessons. These assessments use at least one problem, question, or writing prompt to assess whether a student has learned the basic skills and concepts needed for success in upcoming lessons. Items reflect the minimum that students must demonstrate to meet the lesson objective. You may look for evidence of the Standard for Mathematical Practice (MP) identified as the focus MP for the lesson in student work on the Exit Ticket.” Topic Quizzes (p. 48), “Typical Topic Quizzes consist of 4–6 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts from the topic. Many items allow students to show evidence of one or more of the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). You may use the Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance charts to find which MPs you may be more likely to see from your students on a given assessment item in relation to the content that is assessed. For example, you may be likely to see evidence of MP2, MP4, MP6, and MP7 on the Level 3 Module 1 Topic A Quiz as those are the MPs explicitly identified in the lessons of that topic.” 

Additionally, within the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide (pp. 51-52), Achievement Descriptors, Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance, “Every module in grades 3–5 has a Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance chart. These charts identify the location and show the frequency of the content standards, Standards for Mathematical Practice, and Achievement Descriptors (ADs) in each module. Within the Proficiency Indicators section (p. 52), “Each AD has its own set of proficiency indicators. Proficiency indicators are more detailed than ADs and help you analyze and evaluate what you see or hear in the classroom as well as what you see in students’ written work. Each AD has up to three indicators that align with a category of proficiency: Partially Proficient, Proficient, or Highly Proficient. Proficiency Indicators use language that offers insights about which MPs may be observed as students engage with assessment items. For example, Proficiency Indicators that begin with justify, explain, or analyze likely invite students to show evidence of MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Proficiency Indicators that begin with create or represent likely invite students to show evidence of MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.” 

The Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance chart is provided within each grade level’s Implementation Resources, within the Maps section. “How to use the Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance; Identity Where Content is Taught before Teaching” states, “The Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance charts identify the location and show the frequency of the content standards, Standards for Mathematical Practice, and Achievement Descriptors (ADs) in each module.” While these documents align the MPs to specific lessons and corresponding Exit Tickets, the MPs are not identified within Topic Quizzes. Examples include but are not limited to:

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Topic B Quiz version 1, Item 2, “A restaurant sells 51 hot dogs. It sells 3 times as many burgers as hot dogs. It sells 5 more milkshakes than burgers. How many milkshakes does the restaurant sell?  a. 59; b. 148; c. 158; d. 765.” Achievement Descriptors and Standards identified as 4.Mod2.AD1.HP, which correlates to 4.OA.2. There is no identification of the Mathematical Practices.

  • Module 4: Foundations for Fraction Operations, Topic D Quiz version 1, Item 2, “Ray rides his bike 26\frac{2}{6} miles in the morning. He rides 36\frac{3}{6} miles in the evening. How many miles does Ray ride altogether? Ryan rides ___ miles altogether.” Achievement Descriptors and Standards identified as 4.Mod4.AD7.P, which correlates to 4.NF.3d. There is no identification of the Mathematical Practices.

According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Module Assessments (p.48), “Typical Module Assessments consist of 6–10 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts, skills, and applications taught in the module. Many items allow students to show evidence of one or more of the Standards for Mathematical Practice (MPs). You may use the Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance charts to find which MPs you may be more likely to see from your students on a given assessment item in relation to the content that is assessed. Module Assessments represent the most important content, but they may not assess all the strategies and standards taught in the module.” While these documents align the MPs to specific lessons and corresponding Exit Tickets, the MPs are not identified within Module Assessments. Examples include but are not limited to:

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Module Assessment 2, Item 2, “Multiply 4,962×3=4,962\times3=_____; 57×63=57\times63=_____.” Achievement Descriptors and Standards identified as 4.Mod3.AD2.P, which correlates to 4.NBT.5. There is no identification of the Mathematical Practices.

  • Module 5: Place Value Concepts for Decimal Fractions, Module Assessment 2, Item 1, “Complete each equation, 1. 410=100\frac{4}{10}=\frac{}{100}; 2. 710=100\frac{7}{10}=\frac{}{100}”. Achievement Descriptors and Standards identified as 4.Mod5.AD1.P, which correlates to 4.NF.5. There is no identification of the Mathematical Practices.

Indicator 3J
02/04

Assessment system provides multiple opportunities throughout the grade, course, and/or series to determine students' learning and sufficient guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance and suggestions for follow-up.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 partially meet expectations for including an assessment system that provides multiple opportunities throughout the grade, course, and/or series to determine students’ learning and sufficient guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance and suggestions for follow-up.

The assessment system provides multiple opportunities to determine students' learning, and sufficient guidance for teachers to interpret student performance is reinforced by the Proficiency Indicators. However, suggestions to teachers for following up with students are general and minimal, for example, “Look back at those lessons to select guidance and practice problems that best meet your students’ needs.” While teachers can refer back to specific lessons, it is incumbent on the teacher to determine which guidance and practice problems meet the needs of their individual students. Examples include:

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Resources, Achievement Descriptors: Proficiency Indicators (p. 16), “Achievement Descriptors (ADs) are standards-aligned descriptions that detail what students should know and be able to do based on instruction they receive. The number of ADs addressed in each lesson varies depending on the content. This resource includes proficiency indicators for each AD. Proficiency indicators are descriptions of work that is partially proficient, proficient, or highly proficient. Proficiency indicators help you assess your students’ level of proficiency.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance (pp. 51-52), “Every module in grades 3–5 has a Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance chart. These charts identify the location and show the frequency of the content standards, Standards for Mathematical Practice, and Achievement Descriptors (ADs) in each module. Use these charts to quickly determine where and when standards and ADs are taught within and across modules to help you target observations. You may also use these charts in conjunction with assessment data to identify targeted ways to help meet the needs of specific learners. Use assessment data to determine which ADs and Proficiency Indicators to revisit with students. Use the examples provided with the Proficiency Indicator(s) as the basis for responsive teaching or use the modules’ Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance chart to identify lessons that contain guidance and practice problems to support student follow up.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, Respond to Student Assessment Performance (p. 59), “After administering an assessment, use the assessment reports in the Analyze space of the Great Minds Digital Platform to view student performance by Achievement Descriptor (AD). Analyze the student-performance data and select one or both of the following methods to address learning needs.” Proficiency Indicators: “Proficiency indicators increase in cognitive complexity from partially proficient (PP) to proficient (P) to highly proficient (HP). If a student has difficulty with content of the P indicator of a given AD, follow-up with the student by revisiting the content at the PP indicator of the same AD as shown in the AD proficiency indicator charts. Select the Student Performance report in the Analyze space of the Great Minds Digital Platform. Filter by proficiency indicator and any individual or group of assessments. When the report indicates proficiency of an AD has not been met, refer to the module’s Achievement Descriptors: Proficiency Indicator resource and use the lower-complexity task to build toward full understanding. Use the examples provided with the Proficiency Indicator(s) as the basis for responsive teaching. Example: For students who do not meet the Proficient indicator (4.Mod1.AD1.P), consider focusing on the Partially Proficient indicator (4.Mod1.AD1.PP). In this case, strengthen student foundational understanding of creating one comparison statement to build towards proficient understanding with two comparison statements.”

  • Grades 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, The Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance Charts (p. 60), “Select the Student Performance report in the Analyze space of the Great Minds Digital Platform. Filter by proficiency indicator and any individual or group of assessments. When the report indicates proficiency of an AD has not been met, refer to the Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance charts to identify lessons that teach the concepts of that AD. Navigate to those lessons to find guidance and practice problems to follow up with students. Example: If students struggle with 4.Mod1.AD1, use the Standards and Achievement Descriptors at a Glance chart to find that lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 address the AD. Look back at those lessons to select guidance and practice problems that best meet your students’ needs.”

The assessment system provides guidance to teachers for interpreting student performance within Scoring Guides for Module Assessments and Topic Quizzes. Examples include:

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division, Module Assessment 1, Item 9, “Liz starts at the number 3. She creates a pattern by using the rule: Add 3. Part A, Complete the first six terms in Liz's pattern. 3, ___, ___, ___, ___, ___. Part B, Will the 80th term in the pattern be even or odd? Explain how you know.” Correct Answers are 1) 6, 2) 9, 3) 12, 4) 15, 5) 18. “Part A, Achievement Descriptor, 4.Mod2.AD5; Proficiency Indicator, P; Possible Points, 1×2=21\times2=2; Scoring Type, Dichotomous; Scoring Notes, All five responses must be correct to earn 2 points. Part B; Achievement Descriptor, 4.Mod2.AD5; Proficiency Indicator, P; Possible Points, 1×2=21\times2=2; Scoring Type, Dichotomous; Scoring Notes, Use the scoring notes in the answer key to determine how many points a student earns. After the scale factor is applied, a student can earn 0 or 2 points.”  

  • Module 4: Foundations for Fraction Operations, Topic C Quiz Scoring Guide, “The scoring guide uses a scale factor to weight items differently. The scale factor is determined by the item’s target level of proficiency. Items that target high proficiency carry less weight because it is likely that the least number of students will answer them correctly. Items that target partial proficiency carry more weight because it is likely that the greatest number of students will answer them correctly. When a single item aligns to multiple proficiency indicators, the scale factor of the highest proficiency indicator is used. Target Performance Indicator: Highly Proficient (HP), Scale Factor 1; Proficient (P), Scale Factor 2; Partially Proficient (PP), Scale Factor 3.” The assessment contains five items with no partial credit given unless otherwise indicated in the notes.

Indicator 3K
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Assessments include opportunities for students to demonstrate the full intent of grade-level/course-level standards and practices across the series.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 meet expectations for providing assessments that include opportunities for students to demonstrate the full intent of grade-level standards and practices across the series.

According to the 3-5 Implementation Guide, “The assessment system in grades 3 through 5 helps you understand student learning by generating data from many perspectives. The system includes Lesson-embedded Exit Tickets, Topic Quizzes, Module Assessments, Pre-Module Assessment in Eureka Math 2 Equip, and Benchmark Assessments. These assessments use a variety of question types, such as constructed response, multiple select, multiple choice, single answer, and multi-part. Module Assessments.” These assessments consistently list grade-level content standards for each item. While Mathematical Practices are not explicitly identified on assessments, they are regularly assessed. Students have opportunities to demonstrate the full intent of the standards using a variety of modalities (e.g., oral responses, writing, modeling, etc.). Examples include:

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction, Topic E Quiz 2, Metric Measurement Conversion Tables, Item 3, “Decide whether each equation is true or false. 1 km = 100 m, 3 kg = 3,000 g, 4 L = 4,000 mL, 2 m = 2,000 cm.” Students engage with the full intent of 4.MD.1 (Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm, kg, g… Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of the smaller unit…).

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers, Topic A, Lesson 1, Divide Multiples of 100 and 1000, Land, Exit Ticket, supports the full intent of MP8 (Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning) as students divide by using unit form and basic division facts. “Divide. Use unit form to help you. a. 800÷2=800\div2=___ hundreds ÷\div ___; =___ hundreds; =___.  b. 1200÷4=1200\div4=____.”

Module 5, Place Value Concepts for Decimal Fractions, Module Assessment 2, Item 2, “Add. 310+25100=1\frac{3}{10}+\frac{25}{100}=1___, 81100+510=2\frac{81}{100}+\frac{5}{10}=2___, 217100+1610=32\frac{17}{100}+1\frac{6}{10}=3___” Students engage with the full intent of 4.NF.5 (Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100).

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Assessments offer accommodations that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills without changing the content of the assessment.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math2 Grade 4 partially provide assessments which offer accommodations that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills without changing the content of the assessment.

While few in nature, some suggestions for accommodations are included within the Grade 1-2 Implementation Guide. Examples include:

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside the Digital Platform describes digital assessments available within the program. “Access the Great Minds Library of digital assessments, where you can duplicate and adjust assessments. You can also assign several assessments at once from this space.” Teachers could make decisions about accommodations for different learners but no specific guidance is provided for them.

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, Exit Tickets describes accommodations for time. “In a typical classroom, most students with basic understanding can finish within 3–5 minutes. In some settings, honoring the timeframe is more important than requiring students to finish. For example, a student’s inability to finish within 5 minutes may be valuable information. In other settings, you may extend the time to allow all students to finish as appropriate.”

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, Topic Quizzes assess proficiency with the major concepts from the topic. “There are three analogous versions of each Topic Quiz available digitally. Analogous versions target the same material at the same level of cognitive complexity. However, typical items on analogous versions are not clones of the original version. Use the analogous versions to give retakes, with reteaching or additional practice between takes, until students score proficient or above.” Teachers could make decisions about accommodations for different learners but no specific guidance is provided for them.

  • Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Assessment, Module Assessments describes the use of read aloud as a possible accommodation. “Typical Module Assessments consist of 6–10 items that assess proficiency with the major concepts, skills, and applications taught in the module. There are two analogous versions of each Module Assessment available digitally. Analogous versions target the same material at the same level of cognitive complexity. However, typical items on analogous versions are not clones of the original version. Use the analogous versions to give retakes, with reteaching or additional practice between takes, until students score proficient or above.” Teachers could make decisions about accommodations for different learners but no specific guidance is provided for them.

Criterion 3.3: Student Supports

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The program includes materials designed for each student’s regular and active participation in grade-level/grade-band/series content.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for Student Supports. The materials provide: strategies and supports for students in special populations and for students who read, write, and/or speak in a language other than English to support their regular and active participation in learning grade-level mathematics; multiple extensions and/or opportunities for students to engage with grade-level mathematics at higher levels of complexity; and manipulatives, both virtual and physical, that are accurate representations of the mathematical objects they represent and, when appropriate, are connected to written methods.

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Materials provide strategies and supports for students in special populations to support their regular and active participation in learning grade-level/series mathematics.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for providing strategies and supports for students in special populations to support their regular and active participation in learning grade-level mathematics.

Suggestions are outlined within Teacher Notes for each lesson. Specific recommendations are routinely provided for implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Differentiation: Support, and Differentiation: Challenge, as well as supports for multilingual learners. According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Page 46, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework based on current research from cognitive neuroscience that recognizes learner variance as the norm rather than the exception. The guiding principles of the UDL framework are based on the three primary networks of the brain. Although the concept of UDL has roots in special education, UDL is for all students. When instruction is designed to meet the needs of the widest range of learners, all students benefit. Eureka Math2 lessons are designed with these principles in mind. Lessons throughout the curriculum provide additional suggestions for Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression.” Examples of supports for special populations include:

  • Module 2, Topic A, Lesson 2: Divide two- and three-digit multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers, Launch, “Language Support: Encourage students to use precise language such as factor, unknown factor, and total as they describe the categories they identified. Rephrase student responses as necessary to include the precise language in the discussion.” Learn, Divide by Using Unit Form, “UDL: Action & Expression: Support students in expressing learning in flexible ways. Encourage students to skip-count by tens rather than use place value disks to support the use of mental math in this segment.” Learn, Multiplicative Comparison with Unknown Factors, “UDL: Representation Consider pausing and providing additional think time as students begin to represent the problem with a tape diagram. Ask questions such as the following: What information is known? What information is unknown? What letter could you use to represent the unknown information? Pausing provides time for processing of information and signifies its importance.” Land, Debrief, “UDL: Action & Expression Consider reserving time for students to reflect on their overall experiences multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of 10 and dividing two- and three-digit multiples of 10 by a one-digit number. What strategies work well for me? Which methods do I need more practice using to become confident? What is still confusing? What can I do to help myself?”

  • Module 3, Topic C, Lesson 10: Apply place value strategies to multiply four-digit numbers by one-digit numbers, Learn, Multi-Digit Multiplication on the Place Value Chart, “UDL: Action & Expression: Revisit Liz’s thinking in Launch. Ask students if, after completing the work on the place value chart, they can confirm whether Liz’s thinking was correct. After the class comes to consensus that Liz’s thinking was correct, support students in reflecting by posing the following prompts: If you agreed with Liz, what about your thinking was confirmed? If you disagreed with Liz, what about your thinking has changed?” Learn, Three Methods, “UDL: Action & Expression Consider supporting students in planning their method to multiply the four-digit number. Have students turn to a group member and summarize the steps of one method they can apply before getting started. Language Support: Encourage the use of the Ask for Reasoning section of the Talking Tool to support students with asking their group members clarifying questions.”

  • Module 5, Topic D, Lesson 12: Apply fraction equivalence to add tenths and hundredths, Launch, “UDL: Action & Expression: Consider providing tools to support students with renaming tenths as hundredths. For example, students may wish to use Blank Tape Diagram, Area Models, and Number Line from lesson 9.” Learn, Choose a Strategy to Add, “UDL: Representation: Consider engaging the class in brainstorming what they already know about making equivalent fractions to activate prior knowledge.” Learn, Share, Compare, and Connect, “Language Support: Consider inviting students to refer to the Talking Tool as they share strategies and ask questions about their peers’ strategies. UDL: Engagement: Consider presenting a real-world application of adding tenths and hundredths anchored in a context that may be of interest, or familiar, to students. For example,a snake is 48100\frac{48}{100} meters long. It grows another 310\frac{3}{10} meters. How long is the snake now?” Learn, Add Tenths and Hundredths, “Language Support Consider supporting students with the phrases like units, related units, and unlike units by providing examples. Like units: 14\frac{1}{4} and 34\frac{3}{4}, tenths and tenths Related units: 12\frac{1}{2} and 14\frac{1}{4}, tenths and hundredths Unlike units: 12\frac{1}{2} and , tenths and thirds.”

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Materials provide extensions and/or opportunities for students to engage with grade-level/course-level mathematics at higher levels of complexity.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for providing extensions and/or opportunities for students to engage with grade-level/course-level mathematics at higher levels of complexity.

Materials do not require advanced students to do more assignments than their classmates. Instead, students have opportunities to think differently about learning with alternative questioning, or extension activities. Specific recommendations are routinely highlighted as Teacher Notes within parts of each lesson, as noted in the following examples: 

  • Module 2, Topic A, Lesson 2: Divide two- and three-digit multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers, Learn, Differentiation: Challenge, “Consider providing students with more challenging numbers. Invite students to think about whether they could use a similar strategy to interpret the expression 600÷3600\div3 or 6,000÷36,000\div3. What is similar and different about each of the quotients? Why?”

  • Module 3, Topic C, Lesson 11: Represent multiplication by using partial products, Learn, Partial Products in Vertical Form, Differentiation: Challenge, “Consider inviting students to work independently or with a partner to find 273×5273\times5 and  3×4,1283\times4,128. Direct students to articulate the process of recording partial products with vertical form.”

  • Module 5, Topic B, Lesson 6: Represent hundredths as a place value unit, Learn, Hundredths as a Fractional Unit and a Place Value Unit, Differentiation: Challenge, “Consider inviting students to shade 100 hundredths in an area model. Then ask the following questions: How can you represent the shaded amount as a fraction with a denominator of 100? How can you represent the shaded amount as a fraction with a denominator of 10? How can you represent the shaded amount as a decimal number?”

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Materials provide varied approaches to learning tasks over time and variety in how students are expected to demonstrate their learning with opportunities for students to monitor their learning.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide various approaches to learning tasks over time and variety in how students are expected to demonstrate their learning with opportunities for students to monitor their learning.

Students engage with problem-solving in a variety of ways within a consistent lesson structure: Fluency, Launch, Learn, Land. According to the Implementation Guide, Lesson Structure, “Each lesson is structured in four sections: Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. Lessons are designed for one 60-minute instructional period. Fluency provides distributed practice with previously learned material. It is designed to prepare students for new learning by activating prior knowledge and bridging small learning gaps. Launch creates an accessible entry point to the day’s learning through activities that build context and often create productive struggle that leads to a need for the learning that follows. Every Launch ends with a transition statement that sets the goal for the day’s learning. Learn presents new learning related to the lesson objective, usually through a series of instructional segments. This lesson component takes most of the instructional time. Suggested facilitation styles vary and may include direct instruction, guided instruction, group work, partner activities, interactive video, and digital elements. The Problem Set, an opportunity for independent practice, is included in Learn. Land helps you facilitate a brief discussion to close the lesson and provides students with an opportunity to complete the Exit Ticket. In the Debrief portion of Land, suggested questions, including key questions related to the objective, help students synthesize the day’s learning. The Exit Ticket provides a window into what students understand so that you can make instructional decisions.”

Examples of varied approaches across the consistent lesson structure include:

  • Module 1, Topic B, Lesson 5: Organize, count, and represent a collection of objects, Launch, “Students examine charts and discuss composing place value units.” Teachers, “Introduce the Which One Doesn’t Belong? routine. Display the picture of the four charts. Invite students to study the picture of the charts. Give students 1 minute to find a category in which three of the items belong, but a fourth item does not. When time is up, invite students to explain their chosen categories and to defend why one item does not fit. Highlight responses that emphasize reasoning about place value units, about composing units, and about place value representations. Ask questions that invite students to use precise language, to make connections, and to ask questions of their own.” Sample questions include: “Which one doesn’t belong? How many more hundreds does chart D need to rename to the next largest unit? How do you know? What larger unit can be composed with 10 ones? 10 tens? How can the one in chart C be renamed as tens and ones? How can the tens in chart A be renamed as hundreds and tens?”

  • Module 4, Topic D, Lesson 18: Estimate sums and differences of fractions by using benchmarks, Fluency, Choral Response: Closer to 12\frac{1}{2} or 1? “Students decide whether a fraction is closer to 12\frac{1}{2} or 1 to prepare for estimating sums and differences by using benchmarks. Display 13\frac{1}{3} and the number line labeled with 0, 12\frac{1}{2}, and 1. Think about where 13\frac{1}{3} is located on the number line. Is 13\frac{1}{3} closer to 12\frac{1}{2} or 1? Raise your hand when you know. Wait until most students raise their hands, and then signal for students to respond. Display 13\frac{1}{3} on the number line.” 

  • Module 6, Topic D, Lesson 20: Sort polygons based on a given rule, Learn, Learn the Guess My Rule Game, “Students learn how to play the Guess My Rule game.” Teachers, “Introduce the Guess My Rule game. We are going to sort polygons based on whether they follow a given rule. Read the rules from the Rules Page chorally with the class. Then explain the directions for the Guess My Rule game. As you explain the directions to students, model the actions you describe and play a round of the game with students, providing them with the opportunity to guess the rule. The example given is a sample chart for the rule: Shapes with at least 1 pair of parallel sides.” 

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Materials provide opportunities for teachers to use a variety of grouping strategies.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide opportunities for teachers to use a variety of grouping strategies.  

The materials provide opportunities for teachers to use a variety of grouping strategies. Teacher suggestions include guidance for a variety of groupings, including whole group, small group, pairs, or individual. Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic, Lesson 21: Find factor pairs for numbers up to 100 and use factors to identify numbers as prime or composite, Launch, “Students make arrays to help them reason about the number of factors for a given number. Write the equation l×w=24l\times w=24 Invite students to turn and talk about numbers that make the equation true. Direct students to work with a partner to draw as many arrays with an area of 24 square units as possible. As they create each array, have them sketch the array and record the equation that represents the area. Provide students with 2 minutes to find all possible arrays, sketch the arrays, and record the equations. After students record the equations, direct them to work with another group to compare their equations and to discuss the factors of 24 based on the equations they recorded. Invite students to think–pair–share about how they know that they have found all the factors of 24. ​​Invite students to turn and talk about how they might find all the factors of a number such as 96. Transition to the next segment by framing the work.”

  • Module 3, Topic C, Lesson 15: Multiply with four partial products. Learn, Explain the Calculation, “Use the Numbered Heads routine. Organize students into groups of 3 and assign each student a number, 1 through 3. Present the problem: 83 times as much as 52. Give students 2 minutes to find the product as a group. Remind students any one of them could be the spokesperson for the group, so they should be prepared to answer. Groups should be prepared to share the following information: their group’s process for finding the partial products; the product; and how place value supports determining the partial products and product.”

  • Module 6, Topic B, Lesson 9: Identify and measure angles as turns and recognize them in various contexts. Learn, Degree of Turning, “Students use degrees in relation to directions. Display the directional signs (i.e., North, East, South, West) on the correct walls in the classroom. Have students stand and face north. Turn 90⁢° to the right. What direction are you facing? Look at the sign to see. Repeat the process until students see each of the directions posted around the room. Direct students to face north. Display the following instructions and say them aloud one at a time to students. Walk four small steps forward. Make a quarter turn counterclockwise. Walk five small steps forward. Make a half turn clockwise. Then ask what direction students are facing and how many degrees they need to turn to face south. Pair students and invite them to give three or four walking and turning instructions to a partner. Invite students to write the instructions on their whiteboards before saying them to their partners.”

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Materials provide strategies and supports for students who read, write, and/or speak in a language other than English to regularly participate in learning grade-level mathematics.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for providing strategies and supports for students who read, write, and/or speak in a language other than English to regularly participate in learning grade-level mathematics. 

Support for active participation in grade-level mathematics is consistently included within a Language Support Box embedded within parts of lessons. According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Multilingual Learner Support, Multilingual learners, or learners who speak a language other than English at home, require specific learning supports for gaining proficiency with the English needed to access the mathematics. Research suggests that best practices for these learners include opportunities and supports for student discourse and for using precise terminology. In addition to precise domain-specific terminology, high-impact academic terminology that supports learners across learning domains is explicitly introduced and used repeatedly in various contexts to build familiarity and fluency across the grade levels. Eureka Math² is designed to promote student discourse through classroom discussions, partner or group talk, and rich questions in every lesson.” According to Eureka Math² How To Support Multilingual Learners In Engaging In Math Conversations In The Classroom, “Eureka Math² supports MLLs through the instructional design, or how the plan for each lesson was created from the ground up. With the goal of supporting the clear, concise, and precise use of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in English, Eureka Math² lessons include the following embedded supports for students. 1. Activate prior knowledge  (mathematics content, terminology, contexts). 2. Provide multiple entry points to the mathematics. 3. Use clear, concise student-facing language. 4. Provide strategic active processing time. 5. Illustrate multiple modes and formats. 6. Provide opportunities for strategic review. In addition to the strong, built-in supports for all learners including MLLs outlined above, the teacher–writers of Eureka Math² also intentionally planned to support MLLs with mathematical discourse and the three tiers of terminology in every lesson. Language Support margin boxes provide these just-in-time, targeted instructional recommendations to support MLLs.” Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic E, Lesson 23: Express metric measurements of length in terms of smaller units, Learn, Relative Size of Units, MLL students are provided the support to participate in grade-level mathematics as described in the UDL: Representation, “The context video Running Meters and Kilometers is available to provide another format to illustrate the relationship between meters and kilometers. It may be used to remove language or cultural barriers and provide student engagement. Consider showing the video and facilitating a discussion about what students notice and wonder. This supports students in visualizing the situation before being asked to interpret it mathematically. Ask students how it feels to run 1 meter. Invite students who have experience with running longer distances to compare how it feels to run 1 kilometer, or 2 and 12 laps on a track. Invite students to count the number of steps they take in 1 meter and estimate how many steps they take in 1 kilometer.”

  • Module 4, Topic A, Lesson 1: Decompose whole numbers into a sum of unit fractions, Fluency, Counting on the Number Line by Halves, Language Support, “Consider using strategic, flexible grouping throughout the module. Pair students who have different levels of mathematical proficiency. Pair students who have different levels of English language proficiency. Join pairs to form small groups of four. As applicable, complement any of these groupings by pairing students who speak the same native language.”

  • Module 6, Topic B, Lesson 9: Identify and measure angles as turns and recognize them in various contexts, Learn, Problem Set, MLL students are provided the support to participate in grade-level mathematics as described in the Teacher Note box, “A context video for problem 5 in the Problem Set is available. It may be used to remove language or cultural barriers and provide student engagement. Before providing the problem to students, consider showing the video and facilitating a discussion about what students notice and wonder. This supports students in visualizing the situation before being asked to interpret it mathematically. Alternatively, consider showing the video during Land to facilitate students confirming their solutions. Consider inviting students to reflect on how the video helped them see how the parts of the scene are related. Invite them to describe how this helped them solve the problem and how they can apply the thinking to other situations.”

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Materials provide a balance of images or information about people, representing various demographic and physical characteristics.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide a balance of images or information about people, representing various demographic and physical characteristics. 

Images are included in the student materials as clip art. These images represent different races and portray people from many ethnicities in a positive, respectful manner, with no demographic bias for who achieves success based on the problem contexts and grade-level mathematics. There are also a variety of people captured in video clips that accompany the Launch portion of lessons. Examples include: 

  • Module 1, Topic A, Lesson 3: Describe relationships between measurements by using multiplicative comparison, Fluency, Counting the Math Way by Ones and Tens, “Students construct a number line with their fingers while counting aloud and model compositions to prepare for place value concepts beginning in lesson 5. For each skip-count, show the math way on your own fingers while students count, but do not count aloud. Have students count the math way by ones from 0 to 10. Ask students to model bundling 10 ones to make 1 ten by clasping their hands together. Now let’s count the math way by tens. Each finger represents 10.” An image of clasped hands is shown.

  • Module 2, Topic B, Lesson 7: Multiply by using an area model and the distributive property,  Launch, “Students discuss strategies for finding the total number of tiles in an array. Display the picture of the square tiles, Zara, and Luke. Zara and Luke want to know how many square tiles are on the wall. What do you notice about their strategies? How can Zara use her strategy to find the total number of tiles? How can Zara use her strategy to find the total number of tiles?” Images of a female with a light-brown complexion and a male with brown complexion are shown.

  • Module 4, Topic E, Lesson 24: Add a mixed number to a mixed number, Learn, Add Mixed Numbers in Context, “Students draw a tape diagram and add mixed numbers to solve a word problem. Mr. Endo gathers 27122\frac{7}{12} dozen eggs from his hens in 1 day. He gathers 39123\frac{9}{12} dozen eggs the next day. How many dozen eggs does he gather in the 2 days?” An image of a tape diagram is shown.

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Materials provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student home language to facilitate learning.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student home language to facilitate learning. 

In the 3-5 Implementation Guide, Multilingual Learner English Support provides a link to Eureka Math² “How to Support Multilingual Learners in Engaging in Math Conversation in the Classroom,” provides teachers with literature on research-based supports for Multilingual Learners. The section, Research Focusing on How to Support MLLs with Terminology Acquisition states, “In addition to supporting and fostering authentic mathematical discourse, language-rich classrooms must systematically develop the terminology needed to communicate mathematical concepts. This means that educators must consider multiple tiers of terminology support at any one time. Beck, McKeown, and Kucan (2013) organize terminology into a three-tiered model: tier 1 terms (conversational terms), tier 2 terms (academic terms), and tier 3 terms (domain-specific terms). Because each tier of terminology is used differently in communicating in math class, each must be supported differently. However, in supporting each tier of terminology, instruction must center around honoring and acknowledging the funds of knowledge students bring to the class, instead of assuming that a student doesn’t know the meaning of a term simply because they are a MLL. Adopting a funds of knowledge approach to terminology acquisition helps teachers move away from a simplified view of language and shift toward recognizing and supporting the complexity of language in mathematics (Moschkovich 2010).” Another section, Supporting Mathematical Discourse in Eureka Math2, states, “Authentically engaging in mathematical discourse can present a unique challenge for MLLs. They are constantly managing a large cognitive load by attempting to understand mathematics while also thinking—often in their native language—about how to communicate ideas and results in English. Additionally, everyday classroom interactions are heavily focused on listening and speaking rather than on reading and writing. To lighten the cognitive load of MLLs, Eureka Math2 provides ample opportunities for students to engage in a balanced way with all four aspects of language—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—while engaging with mathematics. Eureka Math2 supports teachers to create language-rich classrooms by modeling teacher–student discourse and by providing suggestions for supported student-to-student discourse. Since curricula in general have an abundance of receptive language experiences (reading and listening), Eureka Math2 focuses specific supports on language production (speaking and writing) in mathematics. The most all-encompassing Language Support margin box appears in the first lesson of every module in Eureka Math2 prompting teachers to consider using strategic, flexible grouping in each activity of the entire module to support MLLs. These grouping suggestions invite teachers to leverage students’ funds of knowledge and native language by assembling pairs of students in different ways. Each of these different ways of pairing students has different benefits for MLLs. Pairing students who have different levels of English language proficiency allows MLLs time for oral rehearsal before speaking or writing about mathematics. It also can provide a language model for MLLs new to the US. Pairing students who have the same native language can provide MLLs time to process in their native language, lowering their affective filter and allowing them to use their native language to solidify the math concept at hand.”

Implementation Resources, Community, Eureka Math² Family Math page, Family Support Resources, Teachers and/or Families are provided a link to the following Eureka Math² materials in Spanish:

  • Family Support: “Family Math is a letter to families that describes the major concepts in the current topic. Each letter uses words and phrases that should be familiar to the student from the lessons in the topic. It includes visual supports that students can use to explain the concepts or strategies to their family, or that can help adults at home understand or unpack a concept. Family Math also includes simple and practical at-home activities to extend learning and help students see mathematics in their world.”

  • Practice: “Practice problems interleave and distribute practice. Interleaving practice means mixing different types of problems together in the same set. The mixture requires learners to discern and recall which knowledge, concepts, and strategies are appropriate. Distributing practice spaces out practice with a given concept or skill over time. This periodic practice helps students solidify their conceptual understanding and procedural skills, transfer knowledge to new applications, and build fluency. Each Practice is structured as two pages. The front page includes problems that represent learning from class that day. These problems are organized similarly to those in the Problem Set, with the final problem being no more complex than those on the Exit Ticket. The second page includes Remember problems. These problems help students recall previously learned concepts and skills. While Practice problems related to the day’s lesson help solidify new learning, Remember problems keep students sharp with familiar concepts. If there is no Problem Set in the day’s lesson, the Practice only includes Remember problems. The Remember problems match the complexity of the proficiency indicators of the relevant Achievement Descriptors.”

  • Practice Partners: “Practice Partners provide a unique kind of support. They take students through the thinking of a ‘partner’ who is solving problems like those in the Practice. The partner represents the thinking required to approach and unpack the problem, using steps that are like those named and described in the lesson. If a term is formally introduced in a lesson, it appears on the Practice Partner in the partner’s thinking.”

In addition, the resources section of each lesson includes slides and/or student pages that are translated into the Spanish language.

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Materials provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student cultural and social backgrounds to facilitate learning.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 partially provide guidance to encourage teachers to draw upon student cultural and social backgrounds to facilitate learning. 

While Spanish materials are accessible within lessons and within the Family Support Materials, there are few specific examples of drawing upon student cultural and social backgrounds. Examples include: 

  • Module 1, Topic B, Lesson 8: Write numbers to 1,000,000 in standard form and word form, Launch, Math Past, “The Math Past resource includes further explanation of each hieroglyph and more information about how Egyptians used hieroglyphs to represent numbers. Display the Egyptian hieroglyphic numerals. Explain that ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs to write numbers and each hieroglyph has the value shown. Invite students to think–pair–share about how Egyptian numerals and our numerals are similar and different.”

  • Module 2, Topic E, Lesson 25: Explore properties of prime and composite numbers up to 100 by using multiples, Launch, Math Past, “The Math Past resource includes more information about sieves and Eratosthenes. The resource also provides more information about how the Sieve of Eratosthenes works to identify prime and composite numbers. Display the picture of a sieve. What do you know about the object? Have you ever used this or something like it before? What have you used it for? One name for the object is a sieve. We will be using a mathematical sieve today. Invite students to turn and talk about what they think a mathematical sieve might do or how it might be used. Display the picture of Eratosthenes.”

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Materials provide supports for different reading levels to ensure accessibility for students.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 partially provide support for different reading levels to ensure accessibility for students.

The Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide states, “A student’s relationship with reading should not affect their relationship with math. All students should see themselves as mathematicians and have opportunities to independently engage with math text. Readability and accessibility tools empower students to embrace the mathematics in every problem. Lessons are designed to remove reading barriers for students while maintaining content rigor. Some ways that Eureka Math² clears these barriers are by including wordless context videos, providing picture support for specific words, and limiting the use of new, non-content-related vocabulary, multisyllabic words, and unfamiliar phonetic patterns.” Examples include:

  • Module 2, Topic B, Lesson 8: Multiply by applying the distributive property and write equations, Learn, Record with Equations, UDL: Engagement, “Consider promoting the value of the work and supporting students in relating the work to the area model by adding context to the problems. Relate a rectangular area context to the numbers by talking about a context such as a garden, mural, or playground.” 

  • Module 5, Topic A, Lesson 2: Decompose 1 one and express tenths in fraction form and decimal form, Learn, Tenths on a Number Line, Teacher Note, “The term decimal is sometimes used as a shortened way to refer to a decimal point or to a number written in decimal form. Model precision by using the more specific terms, decimal point and decimal form, and support students as they make sense of these terms with familiar phrasing.”

  • Module 6, Topic C, Lesson 13: Decompose angles by using pattern blocks, Launch, Language Support, “Consider creating a word bank of pattern block names and descriptions for students to reference when giving explanations in the lesson. Consider using color-coding in the word bank to connect the picture and term: orange square, blue rhombus, tan rhombus, yellow hexagon, green triangle.”

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Manipulatives, both virtual and physical, are accurate representations of the mathematical objects they represent and, when appropriate, are connected to written methods.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 meet expectations for providing manipulatives, both virtual and physical, that are accurate representations of the mathematical objects they represent and, when appropriate, are connected to written methods.

Each lesson includes a list of materials for the Teacher and the Students. As explained in the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Materials lists the items that you and your students need for the lesson. If not otherwise indicated, each student needs one of each listed material.” Examples include:

  • Module 1, Topic B, Lesson 8: Write numbers to 1,000,000 in standard form and word form, Learn, Write Numbers in Standard and Word Forms, Materials, Teacher and Student: Place Value Chart to Millions. “Students group thousands to write numbers in word form and standard form.” Teacher Note, “To support students in writing numbers in standard form, a place value chart is used throughout the lesson. Students express a number in standard form by writing the digits on the place value chart. This scaffold helps them keep track of the place value of each digit, see where commas should be placed, and read the number. Consider removing the scaffold of the place value chart as students are ready.”

  • Module 5, Topic A, Lesson 2: Decompose 1 one and express tenths in fraction form and decimal form, Learn, Tenths on a Number Line, Materials, Teacher: Meter stick. “Students decompose 1 meter and write tenths in decimal form and fraction form. Trace along the edge of a meter stick to create a number line with a length of 1 meter. Draw and label tick marks to represent 0 and 1. Let’s represent tenths another way. How can we use the meter stick to partition the number line into tenths?”

  • Module 6, Topic C, Lesson 13: Decompose angles by using pattern blocks, Learn, Decompose and Angle, Materials, Student: Pattern blocks. “Students use pattern blocks to decompose an angle and find the measure.” After students use pattern blocks to decompose an obtuse angle, the teacher directs students to discuss their decompositions and equations with a partner. “Circulate and listen as they talk. Identify two or three students to share their thinking. Purposefully choose work that allows for rich discussion about connections between strategies used to find the measure of L\angle{L}.”

Criterion 3.4: Intentional Design

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The program includes a visual design that is engaging and references or integrates digital technology, when applicable, with guidance for teachers.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 5 integrate technology such as interactive tools, virtual manipulatives/objects, and/or dynamic mathematics software in ways that engage students in the grade-level standards; include or reference digital technology that provides opportunities for teachers and/or students to collaborate with each other; have a visual design that supports students in engaging thoughtfully with the subject that is neither distracting nor chaotic; and provide teacher guidance for the use of embedded technology to support and enhance student learning.

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Materials integrate technology such as interactive tools, virtual manipulatives/objects, and/or dynamic mathematics software in ways that engage students in the grade-level/series standards, when applicable.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 integrate technology such as interactive tools, virtual manipulatives/objects, and/or dynamic mathematics software in ways that engage students in the grade-level standards, when applicable.

According to the Grades 3-5 Implementation Guide, “Each Eureka Math² lesson provides projectable slides that have media and content required to facilitate the lesson…” Examples include: 

  • Fluency activities

  • Digital experiences such as videos, teacher-led interactives, and demonstrations

  • Images and text from Teach or Learn cued for display by prompts such as display, show, present, or draw students’ attention to 

  • Pages from Learn including Classwork, removables, Problem Sets, and Exit Tickets. 

Additionally, Inside the Digital Platform, “Lessons that include digital interactives are authored so that while you demonstrate the digital interactive, students engage with the demonstrations as a class. Eureka Math² digital interactives help students see and experience mathematical concepts interactively. You can send slides to student devices in classroom settings where it feels appropriate to do so. Use Teacher View to present, send slides to students, monitor student progress, and create student discussions. If you send interactive slides to students from this view, you can choose to view all students’ screens at once or view each student’s activity individually.”

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Materials include or reference digital technology that provides opportunities for teachers and/or students to collaborate with each other, when applicable.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 include or reference digital technology that provides some opportunities for teachers and/or students to collaborate with each other, when applicable. 

According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside the Digital Platform, Teacher View, “Lessons that include digital interactives are authored so that while you demonstrate the digital interactive, students engage with the demonstration as a class. Eureka Math² digital interactives help students see and experience mathematical concepts interactively. You can send slides to student devices in classroom settings where it feels appropriate to do so. Use Teacher View to present, send slides to students, monitor student progress, and create student discussions. If you send interactive slides to students from this view, you can choose to view all students’ screens at once or view each student’s activity individually.” Additionally, Inside the Digital Platform, Student View, “Teacher demonstration slides contain interactives that you can send to student devices. Students use the interactives to engage directly with the mathematical concepts and receive immediate feedback.”

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The visual design (whether in print or digital) supports students in engaging thoughtfully with the subject, and is neither distracting nor chaotic.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 have a visual design (whether in print or digital) that supports students in engaging thoughtfully with the subject, and is neither distracting nor chaotic. 

There is a consistent design across modules, topics and lessons that support student understanding of the mathematics. Student materials, in printed consumable format, include appropriate font size, amount and placement of directions, and space on the page for students to show their mathematical thinking. Teacher digital format is easy to navigate and engaging. There is ample space in the printable Student Task Statements, Assessment PDFs, and workbooks for students to capture calculations and write answers. According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, visual design includes:

  • Lesson Overview, “Each lesson begins with two pages of information to help you prepare to teach the lesson. The Lesson at a Glance is a snapshot of the lesson framed through what students should know, understand, and do while engaging with the lesson. It includes information about the tools, representations, and terminology used in the lesson. Key Questions help focus your instruction and classroom discourse. They encapsulate the key learning of the lesson and may help develop coherence and connections to other concepts or a deeper understanding of a strategy or model. Students discuss these questions as part of the Debrief to synthesize learning during the Land section of the lesson. Achievement Descriptors (ADs) are standards-aligned descriptions that detail what students should know and be able to do based on instruction. The number of ADs addressed in each lesson varies depending on the content. Turn to the Resources section at the end of the Teach book to see the proficiency indicators for each AD. Proficiency indicators help you assess your students’ level of proficiency. The Exit Ticket is a formative assessment that is given at the end of the lesson. Use it to monitor student progress toward proficiency on the Achievement Descriptors and to make instructional choices for upcoming lessons.”

  • Lesson Structure, “Each lesson is structured in four sections: Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. Lessons are designed for one 60-minute instructional period.”  The consistent structure includes a layout that is user-friendly as each component is included in order from top to bottom on the page.

  • Visual Design, “In the Teach book, color coding and other types of text formatting are used to highlight facilitation recommendations and possible statements, questions, and student responses. These are always suggestions and not a script. Each section includes a bold line of text that gives the purpose for that section. These purpose statements, taken together, support the overall objective of the lesson. Dark blue text shows suggested language for questions and statements that are essential to the lesson. Light blue text shows sample student responses. Text that resembles handwriting indicates what you might write on the board. Different colors signal that you will add to the recording at different times during the discussion. Bulleted lists provide suggested advancing and assessing questions to guide learning as needed.” 

  • Inside Learn, “Learn is students’ companion text to the instruction in Teach. It contains all the pages your students need as you implement each lesson. The components that go with each lesson are indicated by icons in the student book. The magnifying glass icon indicates a lesson page that students use during the guided or directed portion of the lesson. The gears icon indicates the Problem Set. This is a carefully crafted set of problems or activities meant for independent practice during the lesson. Items from the Problem Set may be debriefed in Land, or you may use the items as formative assessment or for deeper discussion about a specific aspect of the instruction. The checked ticket icon indicates the Exit Ticket. The Exit Ticket is a brief, formative assessment of key learning in the lesson. An orange bar on the side of a page indicates a removable, a student page that should be removed from the Learn book. A removable may be used inside a personal whiteboard so students can practice skills several times in different ways, or it may be cut, assembled, or rearranged for an activity during a lesson or across multiple lessons.”

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Materials provide teacher guidance for the use of embedded technology to support and enhance student learning, when applicable.

The materials reviewed for Eureka Math² Grade 4 provide teacher guidance for the use of embedded technology to support and enhance student learning, when applicable.  

The Digital Platform provides an additional format for student engagement and enhancement of grade-level mathematics content. According to the Grade 3-5 Implementation Guide, Inside the Digital Platform, “The Great Minds Digital Platform is organized into five key curriculum spaces: Teach, Assign, Assess, Analyze, and Manage. On the digital platform, lessons include the same features as in the Teach book, as well as a few more elements that are unique to the digital space. For example, on the digital platform, the side navigation panel previews digital presentation tools, such as slides, that accompany lessons. Each space within the digital platform supports you to maximize the features that Eureka Math² offers. Teach, Teach contains all the information in the print version, as well as digital curriculum components such as assessments, digital interactives, and slides to project for students. Use this space to access the curriculum components you need for daily instruction. Assign, Create assignments for your students by using any artifact in the Eureka Math² resource library, such as Exit Tickets, Module Assessments, Classwork, removables, or problems for practice. You can launch assessments, view and monitor progress on assigned assessments, and score and analyze completed assessments. Assess, Access the Great Minds Library of digital assessments, where you can duplicate and adjust assessments. You can also assign several assessments at once from this space. Analyze, Generate reports and view data about students’ progress toward proficiency. Assessment reports provide insights, summaries of class performance, and student proficiency by item. Manage, The Manage space allows administrators and teachers to view rostering data for their schools or classes. It is also where you can set or reset a student’s password.”