National Gallery of Canada
Counting Circles
Learners look at bands of colors and estimate how many rings of color there are. While working in groups, they come up with a plan of how to accurately count the rings. They attempt to find a pattern in the colors, and decide whether...
Curated OER
Numeric Patterns
For this numeric and visual patterns worksheet, students continue the numeric and visual patterns given to them. Students are given 16 patterns.
Curated OER
Exploring Pascal's Triangle and Other Recursive Patterns
Students explore patterns in everyday life and in the mathematic world. They create various concrete examples of patterns and verbally describe these patterns to a fellow student.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Making Patterns
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Domino Activity
This Math Forum site has students discover the the pattern of the Fibonacci Numbers by playing with dominos
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Numbers in Nature
This Fibonacci sequence lesson plan is aimed at grades 9-12, but would be appropriate for some junior high classes. It includes historical background and examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature, as well as suggested readings and ties to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Uncover Patterns in Number Sequences
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan provides an activity and discourse to help lead intermediate young scholars through the pattern identification process.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Is It Magic or Is It Maths?
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern recognition skills while working on this magic challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Mathemagician's Seven Spells
See if you can find the pattern in the sequence of numbers that will break the Mathemagician's spell. The solution is available at this one page website. After you find your solution you can check it.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Think of Two Numbers
On this one page website sharpen your logic, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Buzzy Bee Problem
See if you can find the pattern in Buzzy Bee's honeycomb. The solution is available right at this one page website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: How Old?
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Doplication
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern extension skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: It Must Be 2000
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern extension skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Why 8?
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Common Number Patterns
Developed by a mathematics teacher from the UK, this page identifies and illustrates several common number patterns.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Calendar Patterns
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern recognition skills while working on this calendar challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Number Cracker (Number Series Game)
The Number Cracker needs you to help find a secret code by identifying the missing number in a series.
Other
Math Stories: Finding a Pattern
At this one page site, you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem-solving strategy for "identify a pattern." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.