Grade 4 
Mathematics 
Standard 1 
(MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY)
Students understand perimeter and area.

 

Resources
Lesson Plans
Assessments
SRA Math Explorations 
and Applications,  
Willoughby, 1999,  
SRA McGraw-Hill 

Section References 

Lesson 10  
Perimeter 

Lesson 36  
Choosing Appropriate 
Customary Units 

Lesson 37  
Choosing Appropriate  
Metric Units 

Lesson 38  
Practice with Linear  
Measurement 

Lesson 39  
Area: Upper and  
Lower Bounds 

Lesson 74  
Area and Perimeter 

Lesson 134 
Inches, Feet, and Yards 

Lesson 146  
Metric Measurements  
of Length 

Lesson 152  
Using Decimals:  
Weight and Volume  

CHECKPOINT 

Lesson 153  
Cubic Centimeters 

Specific Textbook 
Web Sites 

http://www.glencoe.com/ 
sec/math/prealg/mathnet/ 

http://www.eduplace.com/ 
links/ 

http://www.eduplace.com/ 

http://www.hmco.com/ 
college/mathematics/ 
index.html 

http://www.mcdougallittell. 
com/ 

http://www.hmco.com/ 

http://www.SRA-4KIDS.com/ 

General Math  
Reference Sites 

http://www.learner.org/ 
sami/view-category.php3 
?category=math 

http://www.score.k12.ca.us/ 

http://henson.austin.apple. 
com/edres/curric.shtml 

http://school.discovery.com/ 
schrockguide/index.html 

http://www.EDsOasis.org/ 

http://www.math.com/ 

http://www.nea.org/grants/ 
free.html 

http://www.wcom.com/ 
marcopolo/ 

http://www.udel.edu/sine/ 

http://dewey.chs.chico.k12. 
ca.us/math.html 

Free Stuff 
http://www.nea.org/ 
grants/free.html 

State/National Math  
Ed Organizations 

http://www.nctm.org/ 

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ 

Calif. Dept. of Ed. Standards, Assessment, Ed. Reference. 

Calculator Reference Site 
http://www.ti.com/ 
calc/docs/calchome.html 

Previously Published Data 

1.) Make up riddles for students to solve on their geoboards, and invite students to make up new riddles for other students to solve. For example: I am a rectangle with an area of 12 square units and a perimeter of 14 units. Make me on your geoboard. I am not a rectangle. I have 9 pegs touching the outside of my shape. I have 1 peg inside my shape. My area is 4 1/2 square units, and my perimeter is greater than 9 units. 

2.) Students form irregular figures on the geoboard and find the area and perimeter of each. Then they trade geoboards and compare amounts to see if they have found the same area and perimeter and discuss the methods they each used. 
3.) Challenge students to use grid paper to draw a blueprint for rooms in a house in which they use formulas to determine the square footage (area) of the house and its perimeter. 
Previously Published Data 

1.) Students will make 12 different shapes with an area of 4 square units on a geoboard and on dot and graph paper. They will use formulas to determine area and perimeter and use the drawings or geoboards to prove their calculations. 

2.) Given a set of simple and complex figures, students will find and perimeter for each. They will apply strategies employing squares and rectangles to find the area of complex figures.