Grade 4 is the year numbers get big, fractions get real, and writing gets structured. Here is the year as Alberta schools teach it under the new curriculum — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Alberta math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Applying place value to decimal numbers to hundredths; representing, comparing and ordering decimal numbers.
Adding and subtracting within 10 000, including decimal numbers to hundredths, with estimation and story problems.
Multiplying and dividing natural numbers within 10 000; explaining properties of prime and composite numbers using multiplication and division.
Applying equivalence to the interpretation of fractions, and interpreting simple percentages (such as 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) as parts of 100 in everyday contexts — both are Alberta Grade 4 outcomes; keep numbers small and concrete, and use word-and-number questions ONLY — never ask the child to draw, shade, colour, or fold anything.
Worth watching: this is Grade 4's big conceptual jump. If "is ⅓ bigger than ¼?" gets a guess instead of a reason, it's the unit to practise most.
Analyzing and explaining geometric properties; determining and expressing angles using standard units (degrees); applying equality in multiple ways.
Interpreting and expressing area with square units; communicating duration with standard units of time and elapsed-time problems.
Interpreting and explaining arithmetic and geometric sequences; evaluating the use of scale in graphical representations of data.
267 students are going on a school trip. Each bus holds 40 students. How many buses does the school need?
Analyzing organisms and relating external structures — beaks, limbs, coverings, senses — to their functions.
Investigating how forces can act on objects without contact — magnetism, static electricity and gravity.
Investigating the systems of Earth — land, water, air and living things — and reflecting on how their interconnections sustain life.
Investigating the management of waste and dangerous materials and describing environmental impacts of disposal and recycling.
Investigating and describing objects in space — the Moon, stars and planets — in connection to daily life and Earth's cycles.
Examining and applying design processes to meet needs; investigating evidence and reflecting on its role in science.
The Moon doesn't make its own light. So why can we see it shining at night?
Investigating changes in Canada's political boundaries — how provinces and territories joined and grew into today's map.
Examining significant historical events that contributed to the formation of Canada — Confederation, the growth of provinces, and the treaties between First Nations and the Crown; include honestly that these changes brought serious and unfair pressures on First Nations ways of life, at a general age-appropriate level and from their perspectives, without distressing detail.
Examining the role of the fur trade in the development of Canada — trade routes, forts, and the partnerships and exchanges between First Nations, Métis and European traders.
Investigating historical influences on the federal government in Canada and the roles of the prime minister, Parliament and elections.
Investigating rights and responsibilities in Canada — what citizens are entitled to and what they owe their communities.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the new Alberta curriculum (program of studies) and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.