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

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students 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 students) as well as between...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive lesson on algebraic thinking where young scholars create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this lesson includes technology connections, items for discussion, and extension activities.
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PBS

Pbs: Function Machine

For Students 6th - 8th
Control the inputs and operations of a function machine to produce specific outputs. This interactive exercise focuses on exploring operations, making patterns, and the rules for calculations with positive and negative integers.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hurricanes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson starts out with a short video clip of Hurricane Ivan and shows the pattern it followed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that Hurricane Ivan struck and the eye traveled over Alabama. Discussion of hurricane facts follow....