In the Mathematics program students are active individuals who construct, modify, and integrate ideas by interacting with materials, the world around them, and their peers. Thus, the learning of mathematics must be an active process: exploring, justifying, representing, solving, constructing, discussing, using, investigating, describing, developing, and predicting. These actions require both the physical and mental involvement of students - both hands on and minds on.

Such a curriculum has the following characteristics: *students are actively involved in doing mathematics; problem solving, thinking, reasoning, and communicating are everyday activities; *manipulatives are used to connect conceptual to procedural understanding; *calculators and computers are used in appropriate ways; *there is as much emphasis on application as on acquisition of knowledge and skills; *a broad range of content is addressed.

By the end of Grade 4, students are expected to:

° Understand the numeration system including whole numbers, decimals and their place value. 

° Understand fractions in relationship to a whole and each other.

° Master multiplication and division facts

° Use appropriate standard units of measure.

° Develop an awareness of the three dimensional world.

° Apply basic concepts of probability and statistics.