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Number Patterns

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this number patterns worksheet, students complete patterns by filling in the next 3 numbers in a sequence. An answer key and reference website for additional resources are given.
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Repeating Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore growth patterns by using manipulatives such as pattern blocks, investigate growth pattern of pattern, record growth in T-chart, describe how pattern is growing, and predict number of blocks needed to extend pattern.
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National Symbol Patterns

For Teachers K
Students practice their patterning skills using national symbols.
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Hexagons

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars find a pattern from a geometric sequence and write the formula for extending it. The worksheet includes a table to complete plus four analysis questions. It concludes with instructional implications for the teacher.
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Tile Patterns that Grow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how a pattern built with square tiles grows and describe the change from stage to stage. They predict later stages of a tile design sequence and create math equations related to the growth of tile designs.
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Graphs of Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does an exponential pattern look like in real life? After viewing a video of the population growth of bacteria, learners use the real-life scenario to collect data and graph the result. Their conclusion should be a new type of...
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EngageNY

Why Do Banks Pay YOU to Provide Their Services?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How does a bank make money? That is the question at the based of a lesson that explores the methods banks use to calculate interest. Groups compare the linear simple interest pattern with the exponential compound interest pattern. 
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Word Problem Solving Strategies

For Students 6th - 7th
In this word problem strategy worksheet, students solve and complete 11 different problems and questions related to growing patterns. First, they identify what they know and what information is important. Then, students solve the problem...
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Crystal Growing

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students grow crystals and document their observations by recording timeing and growth. Additional characteristics of crystals are observed under a black light, by growing under different conditions and mineral content is determined.
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I Wonder How Fast Manduca Grows Compared To Me

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners study the Manduca bug and its growth data. They look for patterns and compare their own growth rate to that of the Manduca.
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Relationships Round Robin

For Teachers 7th
Mathematics is all about patterns. Young mathematicians analyze geometric patterns to write algebraic expressions. They use the expressions to predict future stages of the patterns.
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Describing Patterns

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate repeating and growing patterns. Models, graphs and words are used to describe, extend and represent patterns. Students use evidence from models and graphs to support the identification of patterns.
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Footprints

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore patterns.  In this patterns geometry lesson, students identify and extend patterns including body parts, movement, geometric shapes, noises, and footprints.  Students create and share an original pattern.
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Quilts Galore

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners explore patterns. They observe a video, "Math Monsters." Students determine the next item in a sequence. Learners read books about patterns. They discuss patterns in quilts. Students visit a specified web site and design...
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Plants are Growing and Changing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore living things. In this agriculture lesson plan, students read the book A Tree is a Plant and participate in an experiment to explore the patterns of change in living things. Students continue to observe the plant...
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Glad To Meet You

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore patterns. In this patterns instructional activity, students explore patterns in hand-shaking scenarios. Students work in groups to predict and record the number of handshakes that occur in a group.
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Picture Story: How Do Plants Grow

For Students K - 2nd
In this picture story:  how do plants grow worksheet, students look at eight pictures about the growth of a plant and decide what sequence to put them in.
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Conference Tables

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils analyze a pattern of conference tables to determine the number of tables needed and the number of people that can be seated for a given size. Individuals develop general formulas for the two growing number patterns and...
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Lesson: Younger Than Jesus: Understanding, Looking at, Making Abstract Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Before the class makes abstract art, they see contemporary examples and analyze them. They look at art made by abstract artists under the age of 33 then use similar techniques to create an interesting collection of their own. The lesson...
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Fibonacci Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students solve problems using the Fibonacci Patterns. In this geometry instructional activity, students trackthe growing rate of a rabbit population. They collect the data and graph their results. They make predictions based on their...
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What's the Best Deal?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore number sense by solving consumer math problems. In this pattern identification lesson, students analyze a list of numerical and geometric patterns while predicting the future outcome. Students utilize inference skills to...
Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 3: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Natural human interest in patterns and algebraic study of function notation are linked in this introductory unit on the properties of sequences. Once presented with a pattern or situation, the class works through how to justify...
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Growing Crystals from Solutions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students grow crystals in the lab using solutions. In this crystals lesson plan, students set up a crystal growing apparatus using a sugar solution with a thread attached to a piece of copper wire that is inserted in the solution....
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Crystal Growing

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the different phases of a crystal.  In this mineral lesson students grow their own sugar crystals using a sugar recipe. 

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