Mathematics — Grade 2

"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.

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.

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)

By Bonnie Boaz.

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Amazing Attributes: Looking Back and Moving Forward

In this lesson, the last of a nine-part Illuminations unit titled “Amazing Attributes: Sorting and Organizing Objects,” teachers ensure that students have grasped the major concepts in this unit on sorting and organizing. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Buttons! Buttons!

Students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children's literature. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Calculating Patterns

Students use an Internet-based calculator that is linked with an interactive “Hundred Chart” to create, extend, and record numerical patterns in different ways. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Calculating Patterns: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Lesson measures students' ability to create, extend, and interpret patterns in multiple ways. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Connecting Numbers and Patterns

Accommodates multiple learning styles by having students create patterns using different forms. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Creating, describing, and analyzing patterns to recognize relationships and make predictions

This three-part example from Illuminations highlights different aspects of students' understanding and use of patterns as they analyze relationships and make predictions, as discussed in the Algebra Standard. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Different Representations

Students create patterns using connecting cubes and describe various patterns they find in different sequences of cubes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Eating Patterns

Students sort pictures of food and create patterns. They also analyze a partner's patterns and extend those patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Favorite Pizza Toppings

Students make a bar graph to display information about their favorite pizza toppings, analyze the results from the graph, and then share their findings with fellow classmates. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Finding Properties for Sorting

Students sort objects and observe the properties others use for sorting. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Food Pyramid Power: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Students display their knowledge of properties of objects for sorting and creating patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Just Alike

Allows students to apply knowledge of properties for sorting the buttons while working in small groups. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Keeping in Balance

Students participate in activities in which they focus on patterns and relations that can be developed from the exploration of balance, mass, length of the mass arm, and the position of the fulcrum. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Learning about number relationships and properties of numbers using calculators and hundred boards

Virtual hundred boards and calculators furnish a visual way of highlighting and displaying various patterns and relationships among numbers. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Look at Me: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Students create pictographs and bar graphs based on data collected, including the ages of classmates, cats owned, and number of teeth missing. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Making a Record of Pattern Cores

Students focus on elements that constitute a pattern core or unit. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Making Patterns: Multiple-Square Repeating Patterns

Students create and analyze repeating patterns using pattern units of three, four, and five squares. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics