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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Making Patterns With Rubik's Cube

For Students 9th - 10th
This project challenges you to figure out how to make geometric patterns with Rubik's Cube. Leaving your cube in one of these positions makes it much more tempting to pick it up and 'fix' it. See if you can determine how different...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Buttons [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This task challenges a student to describe, extend and make generalizations about a geometric pattern.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Emerging Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students consider the patterns that emerge from agent models and geometric fractals.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Islam and Islamic Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A dictionary entry for Islam and Islamic art with numerous illustrations of representative works in all media, including architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and manuscripts. Includes useful cross-references to related terms and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Tile Patterns I: Octagons and Squares

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders are presented with a tile pattern showing an apparent square surrounded by four octagons. They are asked to answer a question about congruency and angle measurements, as well as prove that the interior shape is really a...
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Other

The Actuarial Foundation: Math Academy: Can You See It in Nature? [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners will build, extend, describe, predict, graph and generate rules for patterns and functions designed to help students understand the connection between geometric and numerical patterns (younger learners) as well as between...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Pattern of Graphing Linear Equations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will extend the knowledge of algebraic expressions from geometric representations and ultimately graph linear equations with understanding. The students will also develop a better understanding of algebraic expressions by...
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Euclidean Geometry: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Mathematicians in ancient Greece were amazed by mathematical patterns, and wanted to explore and explain them. They began to study mathematics just "for fun" without a specific application in mind. One of these mathematicians, Thales of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes & Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text - even Vanilla Ice lyrics?...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shape Makers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this Five E's AMSTI lesson, students discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions with...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Types of Reasoning Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reasoning is a fundamental part of geometric proofs. There are several types of reasoning, many of which we innately and naturally picked up. However, the different...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Straw Bridges

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Working as engineering teams, students design and create model beam bridges using plastic drinking straws and tape as their construction materials. Their goal is to build the strongest bridge with a truss pattern of their own design,...
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Algebra: Special Sequences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In addition to arithmetic and geometric sequences, Fibonacci Numbers, and figurate numbers, there are countless interesting sequences that don't follow a similar, regular pattern. These include prime numbers, perfect numbers, the...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre's Designs With Circles

For Students 9th - 10th
In the Islamic culture, circles are considered to be a unit of measurement and the basis for the organization of space. This is illustrated at this site by a series of exercises.

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