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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dial the Phone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson gives students some insight into the connection between graph theory and triangular numbers, using telephone networks. Similar to the famous Handshake Problem, students will find...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: I Never Metadata I Didn't Like

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this fun lesson will get students thinking about how lists of seemingly random characters (numbers, letters, etc.) can actually contain some meaning. Many examples are given, and although...
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Missing Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The learning exercise has student identify the missing numbers in a number sequence.
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Activity
Mensa Espana

Mensa: Test Orientativo

For Students 3rd - 8th
Which choice creates the best continuing series of the first three drawings? See if you can answer the 18 questions in less than 8 minutes.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
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Website
Other

Link to Learning: Patterning and Algebra

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses aome of the Patterning and Algebra expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive lesson plan on algebraic thinking where students create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this lesson plan includes technology connections, items for discussion, and extension activities.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Mix It Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson based on the story, "Oliver's Fruit Salad," where young scholars explore the concept of proportional reasoning through modeling, student sharing, and questioning. A great introductory lesson for this concept that is sure to...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Sea Life and Beach Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This multi-day lesson allows young scholars to get a chance to explore repeating and growth patterns by extending an existing pattern. Students will practice fractions too. Young scholars will write their own problems and explain their...
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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Continue Number Sequences

For Students 4th - 7th
Determine the rule to continue the number sequence.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Patterns and Fingerprints

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify...
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National Institutes of Health

Niehs: What's Wrong With These Pictures?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An assessment that will test your ability to see patterns. You will look at a set of objects (usually 3-5) and decide which one doesn't belong.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Linear Interpolation and Extrapolation

For Students 8th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to use linear interpolation and extrapolation to make predictions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding the Subtraction Sentence by Pattern

For Students 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to find a pattern in a series of subtraction problems to determine the missing problem in the set. The video is followed by additional problems...
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Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Mystery Operations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Patterns for Children: Moon Rock Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Moon Rock Patterns challenges students to identify and complete ten color patterns.
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Activity
Math Cats

Math Cat: Fact Family Card

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you need to know about fact families can be found here. Discover what fact families are and learn different strategies for using them. Links included to print your own fact family cards, create a fact family house, and play a...
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Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Multiplication Input/output Tables: Find the Rule

For Students 2nd - 4th
Determine the rule for the multiplication input/output table.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Brenda's Bedroom Border

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students explore patterns as they help Brenda choose a pattern for her bedroom.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Pattern Detectives

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The tutorial explores patterns. Learners become pattern detectives who identify and extend different patterns.
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Activity
Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Identifying Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Determine which shape completes the pattern in this interactive exercise.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Time Patterns With Clocks

For Students 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to determine a pattern with time to decide which time would come next. The video is followed by additional problems for students to practice the...