Fourth grade kicks off the year with a unit on place value and addition/subtraction of larger numbers.  

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Students may revisit many of the strategies that were used in earlier grades.  According to the standards, grade 4 is the first time that students are expected to be competent with the standard algorithms for addition and subtraction. ​

You may be saying," Finally, a strategy I know myself!"   

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Here are a couple of videos of Mrs. Cummings explaining the addition algorithm, relating it to a strategy that some children have preferred, "Adding by place value."

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It is really important that students are fluent with both addition/subtraction facts and multiplication/division facts! Please continue to work on these nightly! 

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