Exploring Other Number Patterns
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A lesson plan for Grades 3–5 Mathematics
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- Appropriate grades
- 3–5
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- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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In this lesson, the fourth of a five-part unit from Illuminations titled “Patterns That Grow,” students analyze numeric patterns, including Fibonacci numbers. They also describe numeric patterns and then record them in table form.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 3
- Goal 5: Algebra - The learner will recognize, determine, and represent patterns and simple mathematical relationships.
- Objective 5.01: Describe and extend numeric and geometric patterns.
- Objective 5.02: Extend and find missing terms of repeating and growing patterns.
Grade 4
- Goal 5: Algebra - The learner will demonstrate an understanding of mathematical relationships.
- Objective 5.01: Identify, describe, and generalize relationships in which:
- Quantities change proportionally.
- Change in one quantity relates to change in a second quantity.
- Objective 5.03: Verify mathematical relationships using:
- Models, words, and numbers.
- Order of operations and the identity, commutative, associative, and distributive properties.
- Objective 5.01: Identify, describe, and generalize relationships in which:
Grade 5
- Goal 5: Algebra - The learner will demonstrate an understanding of patterns, relationships, and elementary algebraic representation.
- Objective 5.01: Describe, extend, and generalize numeric and geometric patterns using tables, graphs, words, and symbols.
