Standard Course of Study :: Mathematics — Grade 3

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

Goal 5

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

Objective 5.02

Extend and find missing terms of repeating and growing patterns.

Resources aligned to this objective

Exploring Patterns You Can Feel and Hear
The following lesson will enable students to develop tactile and auditory patterns. As students observe, analyze, and make predictions about patterns they will enhance their problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Carlene M. White.
The Grapes of Math
The book The Grapes of Math is an excellent motivational picture book that models how to use different “thinking” skills to solve word problems by employing a variety of computation strategies. By reading and discussing the possible solutions to the examples provided in the text, students will begin to visualize possible methods to use when trying to solve word problems. Using other word problems to practice the application of these various strategies will enhance the students' abilities to recognize and then apply successful strategies for problem solving.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Computer Technology Skills and Mathematics)
By Deborah Cook.

Lesson plans on the web

Bag the beans
Students work with manipulatives (beans) to create and solve math problems, some of which have more than one correct answer. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chairs around the table
In this Illuminations lesson, students investigate the number of chairs that can be placed around an arrangement of square tables. Three related problems in this lesson yield different linear relationships for students to discover. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Exploring Other Number Patterns
Students analyze numeric patterns, including Fibonacci numbers. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 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
The first race
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students model multiplication facts on the number line and compare various representations. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Growing Patterns
Students use numbers to make growing patterns. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Maintaining the 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 3–4 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Number line journeys
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students generate products using a number line model. Students are encouraged to predict the products and to answer puzzles involving multiplication. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Paper bead necklace
Students learn about the concept of patterns by creating a beaded necklace. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Patterns on Charts
Students find, record, and analyze patterns on hundred and multiplication charts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Patterns That Grow: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend, and translate patterns. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Running races
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students generate and compare paths that model given problem situations on graphing grids. They graph sets of ordered pairs on a graphing grid and compare graphs of linear equations. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Setting the pace
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students continue their investigation of modeling multiplication on the number line using the Distance-Speed-Time Simulation from the NCTM E-Examples. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Single runner
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students physically demonstrate two scenarios involving rate of change and then use a software simulation of two runners along a track. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Telling racing stories
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students model races in which runners start from various positions. They enter numbers in a table of values, model races on a coordinate grid, and compare the results. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Understanding distance, speed, and time relationships using simulation software
This e-example includes a software simulation of two runners along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the race, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The variable machine
This Illuminations lesson provides an introduction to the use of variables for elementary math. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
What comes nex_?: A lesson in patterns and sorting
This lesson, from Illuminations, deals with patterns and the importance of looking at data from more than a single perspective. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics