State of New Jersey Department of Education

TEST SPECIFICATION
STANDARD 4.3 (PATTERNS AND ALGEBRA): by Grade 4

Cumulative Progress Indicators

A. Patterns [4.3.4.A]
  1. Recognize, describe, extend, and create patterns.
    • Descriptions using words, number sentences/expressions, graphs, tables, variables (e.g., shape, blank, or letter)
    • Sequences that stop or that continue infinitely
    • Whole number patterns that grow or shrink as a result of repeatedly adding, subtracting, multiplying by, or dividing by a fixed number (e.g., 5, 8, 11, . . . or 800, 400, 200, . . .)
    • Sequences can often be extended in more than one way (e.g., the next term after 1, 2, 4, . . . could be 8, or 7, or … )
B. Functions and Relationships [4.3.4.B]
  1. Use concrete and pictorial models to explore the basic concept of a function.
    • Input/output tables, T-charts
    • Combining two function machines
    • Reversing a function machine
C. Modeling [4.3.4.C]
  1. Recognize and describe change in quantities.
    • Graphs representing change over time (e.g., temperature, height)
    • How change in one physical quantity can produce a corresponding change in another (e.g., pitch of a sound depends on the rate of vibration)
  2. Construct and solve simple open sentences involving any one operation (e.g., 3 x 6 = __,
    n = 15 ¸ 3, 3 x __ = 0, 16 - c = 7).
D. Procedures [4.3.4.D]
  1. Understand, name, and apply the properties of operations and numbers.
    • Commutative (e.g., 3 x 7 = 7 x 3)
    • Identity element for multiplication is 1 (e.g., 1 x 8 = 8)
    • Associative (e.g., 2 x 4 x 25 can be found by first multiplying either 2 x 4 or 4 x 25)
    • Division by zero is undefined
    • Any number multiplied by zero is zero.
  2. Understand and use the concepts of equals, less than, and greater than in simple number sentences.
    • Symbols ( = , < , > )