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

Goal 5

Algebra - The learner will model simple patterns and sort objects.

Objective 5.02

Create and extend patterns with actions, words, and objects.

Resources aligned to this objective

Bear Graph
The students will compare and contrast bears brought from home and share their ideas through a graph.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Karen Pledger.
Gingerbread Man Fun
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Rebecca Jones.
Life cycle of painted lady butterflies
Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
By Anne Allen.
Lucky Ladybug Doubles
This lesson will involve students in using symmetry and doubling of numbers 1 through 7 to make ladybugs.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Computer Technology Skills)
By Alta Allen.

Lesson plans on the web

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