Here are more content area standards from TIMMS 4th grade listings –
Geometric Shapes and Measures: Lines and Angles
1. Measure and estimate lengths.
2. Identify and draw parallel and perpendicular lines.
3. Compare angles by size and draw angles (e.g., a right angle, angles larger or smaller than a right angle).
Geometric Shapes and Measures: Two- and Three-dimensional Shapes
1. Identify common geometric shapes.
2. Know, describe, and use elementary properties of geometric figures.
3. Classify and compare geometric figures, (e.g., by shape, size or properties).
4. Recognize relationships between three-dimensional shapes and their two-dimensional representations.
5. Calculate areas and perimeters of squares and rectangles of given dimensions
6. Determine and estimate areas and volumes (e.g., by covering with a given shape or by recognizing that area is conserved).
Geometric Shapes and Measures: Location and Movement
1. Use informal coordinate systems to locate points in a plane.
2. Recognize and draw figures with line symmetry.
3. Recognize and draw reflections and rotations of figures.
Data Display: Reading and Interpreting
1. Read data from tables, pictographs, bar graphs, and pie charts.
2. Compare information from related data sets (e.g., given data or representations of data on the favorite flavors of ice cream
in four or more classes, identify the class with chocolate as the most popular flavor).
3. Use information from data displays to answer questions that go beyond directly reading the data displayed (e.g., combine data, perform computations based on the data, draw conclusions, and make predictions).
Data Display: Organizing and Representing
1. Compare and match different representations of the same data.
2. Organize and display data using tables, pictographs, and bar graphs.
Maybe we’d do better on some of these than the Number areas? Or, looking at the PSSA scores by area — maybe not. Again, I’d be curious to know when these are covered in Investigations – let me know if/when you come across these kinds of problems!
