Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Patterns and Number Sequences
A large collection of teacher resources for teaching and reviewing patterns and number sequences. There are games, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, pdf files, Word files, and smartboard activities available for download at several...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Patterns (Object Interactive)
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of number patterns. Students get to control an animated squirrel in order to figure out terms in a sequence and see each pattern represented both in picture form,...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Sequences
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of patterns in sequences. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Number Patterns and Problem Solving
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of number patterns and problem-solving. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Continue Number Sequences
Determine the rule to continue the number sequence.
Other
Mathsframe: Sequences
Students can solve number sequences and skip count with positive and negative whole numbers and decimals.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Uncover Patterns in Number Sequences
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan provides an activity and discourse to help lead intermediate students through the pattern identification process.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Number Cracker Game
Number Cracker is an interactive game that challenges students to find the missing number in a pattern. Four levels of difficulty are available.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Sequences
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of sequences. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
Mathigon
Mathigon: Algebra: Sequences: Pascal's Triangle
This lesson focuses on Pascal's Triangle, a number pyramid in which every cell is the sum of the two cells directly above. It contains all binomial coefficients, as well as many other number sequences and patterns.
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Paint the Squares
An interactive number chart resource with 8 different sized number grids including a regular hundred square provides a way to explore number patterns. Charts are printable and excellent for demonstrating number sequences on interactive...
PBS
Pbs: Gauss Arithmetic Sequence Strategy
Learn how mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss figured out how to sum up any arithmetic sequence without having to add up each and every term. This video focuses on using your critical thinking to follow along as Gauss determines his...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing Growth Pattern Sequences
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must identify a simple pattern in a series of numbers and continue the pattern. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Sequencer
Learn about number patterns in sequences and recursions by specifying a starting number, multiplier, and add-on. The numbers in the sequence are displayed on a graph, and they are also listed below the graph.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Next Decimal in a Sequence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are presented with a sequence of decimal numbers and they must identify the pattern rule and predict the next decimal. Includes...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Find the Next Number in This Sequence?
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. Can you figure out what comes next in the number sequence? Alex Gendler reveals the answer and explains how beyond just being a neat puzzle, this type of sequence has practical applications as well.
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Shape Patterns
Shape Patterns is a sequencing game where children from 3 to 8 years of age need to complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. Three levels of difficulty.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Missing Decimals in a Sequence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are presented with a series of decimal numbers and must identify the pattern and fill in the missing numbers. Includes video...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing the Number Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice determing a number pattern and then completing the pattern.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Relate Number Patterns to Multiplication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A practice quiz where students identify the multiplication pattern in a sequence and fill in related numbers without using multiplication.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing the Number Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must identify the pattern in a series of numbers and fill in the missing numbers. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Number Puzzles
SWBAT apply their understanding of patterns on the hundreds chart and the counting sequence to create a number chart.