Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communities at Work

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore how people function together in small communities to reach a common goal.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Instructional Software Resources for Grades K-3

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners become familiar with teh selection, evaluation, and use of instructional software for 4-8 classroom. They download software demos from the web and discuss critiquing software. Students browse software evaluations on web sites.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Patterns in Multiplication Tables

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice discovering and explaining patterns in multiplication tables. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.D.9 Identify...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Math Patterns 1

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Identify arithmetic patterns (including ones in the addition or multiplication tables), and explain them using properties of operations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
Interactive
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at a fashion store. Those skills include creating number patterns, making a number sentence to represent a word problem, and making a table of...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: School Bus: Missing Terms: Number Patterns

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Students play a variety of learning games to explore number patterns by finding missing terms, using a calculator, and studying tables and a hundreds chart.
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PBS

Pbs: Toothpicks: Patterns in Geometric Shapes

For Students 3rd - 5th
How can you describe the pattern made by a growing triangular shape? This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about pattern recognition and completing a table so you have data you can use to graph the coordinates on a...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Table for 19 (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
The waiters at Polygon's Restaurant need your help. See if you can use your problem solving and patterning skills to help them solve this math challenge. Discover how developing these skills could be useful in real life situations, in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Division Patterns Within the Multiplication Table

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice with basic division facts using a multiplication table. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and divide within 100
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Division Patterns Within the Multiplication Table

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students relate division patterns to the patterns in a multiplication table. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:21] and a set...
Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Multiplication Input/output Tables: Find the Rule

For Students 2nd - 4th
Determine the rule for the multiplication input/output table.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Fill in the Number Patterns Based on the Multiplication Table

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to fill in the number pattern for multiples of two.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Complete the Number Patterns Based on the Multiplication Table

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to use repeated addition to show the pattern for multiplying by 6.
Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Patterns in the Multiplication Table

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
The goal is to look for structure and identify patterns in the multiplication table and then try to find the mathematical explanation for this. Aligns with CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.D.9 Identify arithmetic patterns, and explain them using...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arrangement 3

For Students 3rd - 5th
Matt's third table arrangement helps fit all 20 workers at five tables in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arrangement 1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The CyberSquad tries to figure out a table arrangement for 20 workers in this video from Cyberchase.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arrangement 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Matt tries for a second time to arrange tables and chairs to accommodate 20 workers.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Inequalities

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are given a number sentence expressed as an inequality and must fill in a blank to make it true. Includes video demonstrating a...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Boxes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Have fun and learn by making a box and then find out its maximum volume as well as other problem-solving activities, including making a table of your results and drawing a graph.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to figure out if women really do live longer than men. A math challenge taken from today's health journals that explores data collection, data analysis, patterns, and graphing skills. Learn how mastering these skills can be...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sticky Triangles

For Students 3rd - 4th
On this one page website sharpen your logic, table making, and pattern recognition skills while working on this triangle challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Round and Round the Circle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn multiplication with this dial star exercise. Predict what shapes you will get with different numbers.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Spelling Circle

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this one page website use trial and error to find the words hidden in the spelling circles. Check your solution right at the website.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Buckets of Thinking

For Students 3rd - 8th
Trial and error is just one of the problem solving strategies that you could use to solve this bucket problem. After you finish view the solution at this one page website.