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Activity
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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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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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Magnifying Max

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This site has the view through Max's magnifying glass. The ants seem to be walking past him in a pattern, can you help him predict how many ants are coming next? Teachers will like the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra challenges.
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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
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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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Word Patterns Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.
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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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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Uncover Patterns in Number Sequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan provides an activity and discourse to help lead intermediate young scholars through the pattern identification process.
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Interactive
Other

Who's Missing?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on different shapes to extend the pattern. Three levels of difficulty.
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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: Where Are They?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your logic, polygon properties, and pattern recognition skills working on this challenge. Solution included.
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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: Games Frogs

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Use this interactive game to improve your knowledge and understanding of patterns and algebra. Can you describe a rule to follow where you make the least moves? Just follow the instructions below it.
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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: Train Carriages

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern creation 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: 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.
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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
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: It Must Be 2000

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

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Ice Cream

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Sharpen your logic and pattern creation skills performing this fun game. Includes solution.