Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.

Students use rectangles to explore patterns. Once they understand the concept, students can create their own patterns for others to explore.

In this lesson plan, 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 plan overview, other material links are also provided.

Based on building a hexagon, this activity from the Math Forum collection focuses on using different combinations of pattern blocks to create a hexagon. An online activity, pencil and paper method, literature connections, and a...

Students can download pattern block grid paper or cutouts for class activities. Included is an activity comparing the relationships of fractional parts called, "What's My Number?" Links available to other pattern block and fraction...

This interactive exercise focuses on determining probabilities associated with repeated coin tosses and building tree diagrams to take math out of the classroom and into the real world.

In this lesson plan, learners will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.

Use this tool to design a pattern using geometric shapes.

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...

Explroe geometric patterns with this step by step interactive lesson.

A colorful, engaging site where students can manipulate pattern blocks to create patterns or pictures. Included in the detailed directions are possible activities and a feature that allows you to email your patterns to a friend.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and try practice problems on identifying and continuing geometric patterns.

Students use pattern shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students explore geometric relationships, think about angles, investigate symmetry, and...

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...

Four basic geometric shapes - the triangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, and hexagon - are examined to determine how many of one shape fits "inside" another. For instance, how many triangles are "in" a hexagon. Ten questions with solutions...

Find out how quilting and math go hand in hand when you visit this comprehensive resource. This resource provides a lesson plan for integrating geometry concepts with quilt making.

Cyberchase video in which the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz, and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers. [3:20]

In this lesson, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.

Students can use this interactive site to practice various geometric concepts such as rotations, reflections, translations, tesselations and geometric patterns.

In this activity, students develop algorithms for generating and generalizing patterns related to triangle and square geometric models.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, performers from STOMP! illustrate patterns using inventive and exciting rhythmic melodies.

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?...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize and describe visual or geometric patterns.

Test your logic, polygon properties, and pattern recognition skills working on this challenge. Solution included.