4th
GRADE 3:
Quarter Student Task Force
Chapter 10
Mario’s Coffee Shop
Mario runs a small coffee shop. Every day he serves
breakfast and lunch. It is important for Mario to know about
time and measuring things.
1. The clocks show the times that Mario opened his coffee
shop, served lunches, and
closed his coffee shop one
day this week.
a. Write the times using A.M. and P.M.
b. Ms. Henley is meeting her son at the coffee shop at
12:00 for lunch. She arrives 20 minutes early. What
time does Ms. Henley get to the coffee shop? Use
A.M. or P.M. Explain how you know which one to
use.
c. Mario puts loaves of bread in the oven at 8:20 A. M.
He takes the bread out at 8:47 A.M. Find how long it
took for the bread to bake. Use the number line to
solve the problem.
2. Mario buys a rack to hold his measuring spoons. The
rack holds spoons that are up to 4 ½ inches long. Use a
ruler to decide if this spoon will fit. Explain your answer.
3. Mario uses this pitcher to serve juice. He serves this
bread.
4. Mario fills the pitcher above with juice 7 times during
the day.
a. How many liters of juice does Mario serve? Write an
equation to solve.
b. Mario fills the pitcher above with juice. Then he pours all
of the juice into 3 smaller pitchers. Each small pitcher
does not need to hold the same amount of juice. How
much juice could each of the smaller pitchers hold?
5. Mario has a sack with 298 grams of flour in it. He uses 139
grams to make pies. Write an equation to show how much
flour is left.
Chapter 11
Summer at the Petting Zoo
Aisha helps out at a petting zoo over the summer. She
makes some changes where the animals are kept. Solve the
problems below using what you know about measurement.
b. How many square feet of tiles does Aisha need to put
on the ceiling of the pen? Write a number sentence to
solve.
4. Aisha wants to build a fence for the goat exhibit. She has
14 meters of fencing.
a. Draw two ways that Aisha could build the fence.
b. Are the areas of the fences the same? Explain.
Chapter 12
Stained Glass Art
1. Jamal designs this shape. He cuts out the glass and glues
the pieces together. Then he makes a chart to classify and
count the pieces.
a. Complete the chart to show the number of pieces that
have each description.
b.
on the hexagons.
Put an H
c. Put a Q on the quadrilaterals. Circle the names of the
quadrilaterals you identified.
rectangle
trapezoid
rhombus
square
d. Will Jamal cut out any pentagons? Explain
2. Jamal designs these quadrilaterals. Read the descriptions.
Draw the quadrilateral on the grid.
a. The shape has two pairs of parallel
sides. It has 4 right angles. It has 4
sides of equal length. Name the
quadrilateral.
b. The shape has one pair of parallel
sides. One of the parallel sides is longer
than the other. It has no right
angles. Name the quadrilateral.
3. Jamal draws this shape. Divide the shape into parts with
equal area. Write the area of one part as a fraction of the
whole shape’s area.