Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding Patterns to Make Predictions

For Students 6th - 8th
Make predictions then explore the patterns found in everyday objects like stairs. This interactive exercise focuses on developing an equation to represent a mathematical rule and working with virtual manipulatives to visualize a concept,...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase video, Bianca and her friend go camping and soon realize that Bianca has left the food at home. They find a vending machine in the woods, but it doesn't dispense the food that corresponds with the numbers Bianca...
Lesson Plan
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...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Decimals

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include creating patterns of decimal numbers, describing relationships between multiplication facts ,and being...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Gnomon 1

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to explore a specific number pattern named the "Fibonacci sequence." See what other patterns you can discover while you manipulate the blocks. There is a "Printable Page" link if you...
Activity
Other

Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fraction Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will participate in a hands-on lesson about dividing a whole object into parts. They will also practice simple addition.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U...
Handout
Other

Helping With Math: Generating Patterns & Identifying Relationships

For Students 5th Standards
A tutorial and downloadable worksheets that practice generating patterns and identifying relationships. It offers a pretest, an explanation with examples, practice, and a test.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading a Thermometer

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns how to read a thermometer as they try to keep their chocolate sculpture from melting.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Made in America: The High Cost of Fashion

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate data on changes over time in where our apparel is made and how much we spend on it in these images from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and graph the data. They also look for...