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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail

For Students K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

Univeristy of Regina: Math Central: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan on early patterning is well written, well planned, and extensive. The math content is substantial for this age. There are lots of connections to other content areas. Materials needed are readily available or provided for...
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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Making Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
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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 plan engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
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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
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Tooth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Read this spooky rhyme and then use the activity page to create patterns with Halloween candy. The teacher's guide and extra challenges will help teachers make fun and interesting lesson plans.
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Interactive
Channel 4 Learning

Channel 4 Maths: Mathszone

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you help Ben and Mai escape their captors and foil the robbers' getaway plan? Test your mathematical aptitude in this captivating, interactive, adventure game that uses a PDA/calculator to solve math clues. Students will activate...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: 1 Step 2 Step, Fibonacci

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
See if you can find the patterns on the staircase. Mr. Fibonacci would be so proud to know you found the solution. You can check your solution right at this nifty one-page website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Is It Magic or Is It Maths?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Mathemagician's Seven Spells

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Think of Two Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Magic Plant

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Logo Programming Overlapping Polygons

For Students 3rd - 8th
Using this Logo Program you can experiment with different values for N in the procedure and see the changes in the results.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: How Old?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Common Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Developed by a mathematics teacher from the UK, this page identifies and illustrates several common number patterns.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Buzzy Bee Problem

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
See if you can find the pattern in Buzzy Bee's honeycomb. The solution is available right at this one page website.