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title: "4.MP: Mathematical Practices Overview (Georgia Mathematics standard)"
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# 4.MP: Mathematical Practices Overview

Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals.

- Subject: Mathematics
- Appears in: Grade 4, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/math/grade-4.md

## Expectations

- **4.MP.1**: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- **4.MP.2**: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- **4.MP.3**: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- **4.MP.4**: Model with mathematics.
- **4.MP.5**: Use appropriate tools strategically.
- **4.MP.6**: Attend to precision.
- **4.MP.7**: Look for and make use of structure.
- **4.MP.8**: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.MP.md
- Grade 1, 1.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.MP.md
- Grade 2, 2.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.MP.md
- Grade 3, 3.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.MP.md
- **Grade 4, 4.MP (this standard)**: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals.
- Grade 5, 5.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.MP.md
- Grade 6, 6.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.MP.md
- Grade 7, 7.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.MP.md
- Grade 8, 8.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.MP.md

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.