Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Symmetry With Pattern Blocks
Students learn to use pattern blocks to build a design that has a line of symmetry. They use the calculator to determine the value of half the design. They predict and then find the value of the entire design.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Double Your Design
Students learn to use pattern blocks to investigate symmetry by building a design, making its mirror image, and using the calculator to determine the value of both the design made and its reflection.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Design a Quilt
Students learn to use pattern blocks to build a two dimensional design, and use the calculator to determine the value of the design.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Line Symmetry
This site from The Math Forum is a great site if you are looking for activities to engage your students in learning about line symmetry. Peruse this collection of activities for one or two or four that would be right for your students....
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PBS
Pbs Mathline: Tiling the Plaza Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Learners are given pattern blocks and are told to create a tile design for a building to use on the floor. Printable lesson.
Other
Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Covering a Tanagram
[Free Registration/Login Required] Covering designs using pattern blocks.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.