Our Fourth Grade Intensive Preparation (4IP) class is a 6-lesson summer course designed to fully prepare students for our fourth grade curriculum. Whereas most summer math programs are remedial in nature, ours is not. Students entering our 4IP class should already possess a basic understanding of third grade math and be ready to move to a higher level of proficiency.

Each 2-hour IP lesson reviews approximately 6 lessons of fourth grade (3A and 3B) material. The class not only gives students an opportunity to review and reinforce what they learned in third grade math, it encourages them to build upon that knowledge by applying it to solve more challenging multi-step word and non-routine problems, thereby improving and expanding their abilities.

Topics covered include:

• Lesson 1: Addition and subtraction within 10,000. Multiplication and division within 10,000.
• Lesson 2: Mental calculations. Money. Time.
• Lesson 3: Length, mass, volume and capacity, in U.S. and metric units.
• Lesson 4: Bar graphs. Fractions.
• Lesson 5: Angles. Perpendicular lines, Parallel lines.
• Lesson 6: Area. Perimeter.