LEARN NC

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

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We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

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Aligned lesson plans

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 3–4 Mathematics)
By Carlene M. White.

Resources on the web

What's next?
In this lesson, students begin their study of growing patterns by making linear patterns with block shapes using several pattern cores. Students make a pattern with at least three repeats of the pattern core (for example, square, trapezoid, hexagon, square,... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Mathematics)
Provided by: Illuminations
Growing patterns
In this lesson, the third of a five-part unit from Illuminations titled “Patterns That Grow,” students use numbers to make growing patterns. They create, analyze, and describe growing patterns and then record them. They also analyze a special... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Mathematics)
Provided by: Illuminations