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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Rectangle Pattern Challenges

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use rectangles to explore patterns. Once they understand the concept, students can create their own patterns for others to explore.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Soccer Stadium: Changing Numbers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a soccer field. Those skills include creating numbers for a number pattern, creating patterns using manipulatives, and using diagrams to...
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...
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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,...
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PBS

Pbs: Super Stairs: Patterns of Ordered Pairs

For Students 6th - 8th
Try to find the numerical pattern to describe what happens when Dan runs stairs. This interactive lesson focuses on using what you know about pattern recognition and using data to write expressions in order for you to figure out the...
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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...
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Pattern Blocks

For Students 3rd - 5th
Interactive tool using pattern blocks for students to explore.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Toothpicks: Patterns in Geometric Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
Interactive
Iowa State University

Math Jeopardy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
It's time for Jeopardy. Detailed directions and suggested game questions are given for Math Jeopardy. Questions are attached in a PDF file that can be downloaded and printed.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Nature, the Golden Ratio, and Fibonacci, Too

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at how spirals form in nature when cells reproduce in a flower, for example. An interactive lets students try entering different values to see if they can make a spiral pattern with no gaps. The correct figure would be the Golden...
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: m.c.escher: Mathematics and Visual Arts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This cross-curricular middle school unit integrates mathematics and visual art. Through the study of the M.C. Escher?s work, students explore tiling from both a mathematical and artistic point of view. Points for discussion and...
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Counting by Tens

For Students K - 1st Standards
This lesson is about counting by tens from AAAmath.com. There are separate sections for learning, practice, playing a game, and exploring more about skip counting.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Patterns Make Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.
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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
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Games Frogs

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Use this interactive game to improve your knowledge and understanding of patterns and algebra. Can you describe a rule to follow where you make the least moves? Just follow the instructions below it.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Positive Exponents as Fractals

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore the relationship between graphic patterns and their mathematical representation. This video focuses on how fractals can be a visual representation of positive exponents.
Interactive
Other

Sudoku Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers many uses for Sudoku, including free online puzzles, free puzzles for school publication, and it gives the history of Sudoku.
Activity
Other

Backtracking: An Interactive Tessellation Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click on the squares to move the tiles and create the correct pattern. A fun way to explore the concept of tessellations.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Review: Outliers in Scatter Plots

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn about the points that don't fit the pattern in a scatter plot with this article. Site also includes practice questions to test your knowledge of the topic.
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...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Review: Clusters in Scatter Plots

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
An article that discusses what we mean when we talk about clusters in scatter plots. It also includes practice questions that test your knowledge of the topic.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Recursive Formulas

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson provides a review of a variety of sequence types including recursive, arithmetic, and geometric. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice,...
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Polyominoes Fun With Dominoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For students who have ever played dominoes and Tetris, polyominoes will strike them as a great deal of fun. Teachers will see the educational benefits of working with similar and congruent shapes and rotating them in a plane. Exploration...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: It Figures!

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Learn fraction multiplication with this fun tutorial.

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