Mathematics / 4th Grade / Fluency Activities
The table below includes fluency activities that engage students in practicing skills appropriate for the unit, organized by the Topics of the unit. In each table, the left column identifies the applicable skills of each Topic, and the right column identifies one or more activities (and variations of those activities) that align to each of those skills. To learn more about each fluency activity, including optional variations to increase or decrease the cognitive complexity for students, click on the activity.
For each Topic, you can choose to practice each of the following skills with whatever frequency you’d like, but be sure students get sufficient practice for each of the targeted skills. For the skills with more than one activity listed, you may choose to use all or just some of the activities, depending on which students find most engaging. You can also spiral previously introduced activities into later Topics if students need additional practice on that skill. Do not introduce an activity before students are taught that material in the regular math lesson, since these activities assume a conceptual foundation has already been built.
For more guidance on incorporating fluency practice into your lessons, see our Teacher Tool on Procedural Skill and Fluency.
Key:
Approaching
Read multi-digit numbers aloud
4.NBT.A.2
Whole Class Activity
Choral Counting - Version 5
Read and write multi-digit numbers in multiple forms
2.NBT.A.3
Center Activity
Jigsaw - Version 1
Place multi-digit numbers on a number line
2.MD.B.6
2.NBT.A.4
3.NBT.A.1
4.NBT.A.3
Clothesline Math - Version 1
Compare multi-digit whole numbers
Number Clash - Version 1
Order multi-digit numbers
Order Up - Version 1
Compare multi-digit numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 2
Round multi-digit numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 3
Add multi-digit numbers
2.NBT.B.5
3.NBT.A.2
4.NBT.B.4
4.NBT.B.5
Hit the Target - Version 1 - Use Game Board A and/or B
Get to __ - Version 1 - Use Game Board A and/or B
Subtract multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 2 - Use Game Board D and/or E
Get to __ - Version 2 - Use Game Board F and/or G
Add multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 2
Subtract multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 3
Estimate sums and differences within 1,000
High or Low? - Version 1
Hit the Target - Version 1 - Use Game Board C
Get to __ - Version 1 - Use Game Board C, D, and/or E
Hit the Target - Version 2 - Use Game Board F
Get to __ - Version 2 - Use Game Board H, I, and/or J
Multiply and divide within 100
3.OA.C.7
Four in a Row - Version 6
War - Version 2
Estimate products of multi-digit numbers
5.NBT.B.5
High or Low? - Version 2
Multiply multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 4
Multiply multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 3 - Use Game Board G, H, and/or I
Get to __ - Version 3 - Use Game Board K, L, and/or N
Hit the Target - Version 3 - Use Game Board G, H, I, and/or J
Get to __ - Version 3 - Use Game Board K, L, M and/or N
Find quotients and remainders
4.NBT.B.6
4.OA.A.3
Remainder Game - Version 1
Estimate quotients of multi-digit numbers
5.NBT.B.6
6.NS.B.2
High or Low? - Version 3
Divide multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 4 - Use Game Board O, P, and/or Q
Get to __ - Version 4 - Use Game Board R, S, T and/or W
Divide multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 5
Find factors and multiples
4.OA.B.4
Factor Game - Version 1
Generate and identify equivalent fractions
3.NF.A.3.B
4.NF.A.1
5.NF.A.1
Fraction Connect Four - Version 1
Place fractions on a number line
3.NF.A.2
Clothesline Math - Version 4
Compare fractions
3.NF.A.3.D
4.NF.A.2
Number Clash - Version 2
Order fractions
Swap Shop - Version 1
Compare fractions using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 5
Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators
4.NF.B.3
To the Max - Version 1 - Use Game Board A
Add fractions using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 6
Subtract fractions using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 7
To the Max - Version 1 - Use Game Board B
Multiply whole numbers by fractions and mixed numbers
4.NF.B.4
To the Max - Version 2
Multiply fractions using mental strategies
5.NF.B.4
Number Talks - Version 8
Read decimal numbers aloud
4.NF.C.6
5.NBT.A.3.A
Choral Counting - Version 6
Read and write decimal numbers to hundredths in multiple forms
Jigsaw - Version 2 - Use Game Board D or H
Place decimal numbers on a number line
5.NBT.A.3
5.NBT.A.4
Clothesline Math - Version 6
Down to the Wire - Version 3
Jigsaw - Version 2
Compare decimal numbers
4.NF.C.7
5.NBT.A.3.B
Number Clash - Version 3 - Use Game Board C
Order decimal numbers to the hundredths
Order Up - Version 2
Compare decimal numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 7
Add decimal numbers
4.NF.C.5
6.NS.B.3
Make One - Version 1
Relate measurement scales to a number line
3.MD.A.2
4.MD.A.2
Clothesline Math - Version 10
Relate time to a number line
3.MD.A.1
Clothesline Math - Version 9
Define geometric terms
4.G.A.1
Geometry Taboo - Version 1 - Use Card Set A
Geometry Taboo - Version 1 - Use Card Set(s) A and/or B
Draw and measure angles
4.MD.C.6
Angle Bullseye - Version 1
Geometry Taboo - Version 1 - Use Card Set(s) A, B, and/or C
Find the measure of composite angles
4.MD.C.7
Pull a 180 - Version 1
Geometry Taboo - Version 1 - Use any Card Set(s) A-D
Classify flat figures based on properties
4.G.A.3
5.G.B.4
Quadrilateral Go Fish - Version 1
Triangle Grab - Version 1
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