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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 5

Algebra - The learner will recognize and represent patterns and simple mathematical relationships.

Objective 5.01

Identify, describe, translate, and extend repeating and growing patterns.

Resources aligned to this objective

Working with patterns
Students use their knowledge of patterns to discover the remaining members of an established pattern as set forth in the Shodor activity called "Pattern Generator." Permission has been granted for the use of the Shodor materials as part of the workshop- "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
French fries up and down
The students will get hands-on practice working with patterns and translating them to numerical sequences. This lesson reaches visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners all at the same time.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By Annie Nesbitt.
"Chips" ahoy!
This lesson will help children recognize, continue, and create number patterns, as well as find the rules for the patterns. The activities progress from concrete to semi-concrete to abstract.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By Terri Downing.

Resources on the web

What's Next?
Students make patterns, read patterns, and find patterns in the environment. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
What's My Rule for Sorting?
Students build on prior knowledge of sorting and classifying when they recognize sorts and name rules for sorting. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Teaching shapes using read-alouds, visualization, and sketch to stretch
This ReadWriteThink lesson encourages strategic reading and real-world math connections using a variety of techniques. Students explore shape and pattern through an adapted sketch to stretch strategy and read-alouds of winter-themed books. In the final... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Sorting Time
Students sort objects and symbols and make patterns with sorted objects. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Sorting
Students develop the idea that information can be more easily managed and retrieved if it is logically sorted and stored, using the example of books in a library. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sing and Show Patterns
Engages students in creating patterns with movement and translating the patterns into other forms. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Music Education)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Show and Tell
Students describe their graphs using appropriate vocabulary and to develop skills in posing and responding to questions about their graphs. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Repeating and Growing Patterns
Students create and explore more complex patterns such as “growing patterns,” which have related but different relationships to “repeating patterns.” (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Powerful Patterns: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students are provided with buttons or pasta and are asked to make a pattern that is then described to the class. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Playing with Patterns
Students use objects and symbols to make repeating linear patterns. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Naming Rows and Columns
Students learn the difference between rows and columns, how to label and select a title for graphs, and what comparative terms to use to describe relationships between and among the various sets of buttons. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
My Button Is...
Students make use of the properties enumerated in the previous segments of this nine-part unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Multiple Patterns
Students explore patterns that involve doubling. They use objects and numbers in their exploration and record them using a table. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
More Patterns
Students extend their knowledge of linear patterns by making patterns on a grid using shapes and other symbols. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Music Education)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Measuring with Teacher's Foot
Students use nonstandard units to measure the distance between objects found in their classroom. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Measuring with Our Foot
Students measure distances using an outline cutout of their own foot. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
A matter of pattern
Students will concretely experiment with patterns by creating and predicting patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science