Patterns are everywhere! In this week-long learning adventure, children will discover what a pattern is and explore patterns in different ways. Children will learn that patterns consist of a "core" or "unit" that repeats as they identify...

This project challenges you to figure out how to make geometric patterns with Rubik's Cube. Leaving your cube in one of these positions makes it much more tempting to pick it up and 'fix' it. See if you can determine how different...

Students consider the patterns that emerge from agent models and geometric fractals.

Have you ever wondered why golf balls have a pattern of dimples on their surface? The dimples are important for determining how air flows around the ball when it is in flight. The dimple pattern, combined with the spin imparted to the...

The structure of families in medieval and modern times, and the patterns they follow are examined. These include topics such as household composition, age of marriage, life expectancy, inheritance customs, financial resources, disruptive...

Students try to find the numerical pattern to describe what happens when Dan runs stairs.

Students learn about patterns of inheritance including genotype and phenotype, and then learn about the inheritance of autosomal dominant and recessive and sex-linked genetic disorders.

Download these free worksheets to sharpen your patterning skills. Sheets focus on number patterns, Pascal's triangle, and pattern blocks.

A instructional activity for students to recognize patterns in a number chart. Site includes documents and videos to help implement the instructional activity.

This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

Students read the book The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland to examine the sixteen patterns of life presented in the book. As students study...

Explore this course in sequences and patterns including simple sequence, triangle and square numbers, terms, recursive formulas, and explicit formulas. Click on Trailer on the top left to watch an introductory video.

In addition to defining and describing various patterns of text organization, this website provides outlines illustrating each pattern. RI.11-12.3 Text development

This interactive game focuses on repeated patterns to create dance moves.

Elaborate on the essential characteristics and the causes of standing wave patterns and relate these patterns to the vibrations of musical instruments.

Students investigate the underlying causes of two-point source interference pattern. They also discover that the spatial separation between the antinodal and nodal lines in the pattern is related to the wavelength of the waves.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain historical patterns of unemployment in the United States, Identify trends of unemployment based on demographics, and Evaluate global unemployment rates.

Are there patterns in nature that can be described by numbers? That is what we will find out here.

This lesson looks at how to recognize patterns in a data display by examining the shape of a graph, the center, the spread, and unusual features such as outliers. Includes video. [11:16]

Demonstrate your grasp of patterns and factors by sorting the numbers into the correct columns. This interactive table focuses on factor pairs and prime factors for the numbers 2 to 36.

This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

Eighth graders are presented with a pattern of octagon tiles. They are asked to answer questions about angle measures and hexagonal arrangements. Aligns with 8.G.A.5.

This activity provides exploration of patterns using pictures, shapes, letters, and numbers.

Educational tutorial highlights standing wave patterns. Discover more about them and be sure to click on the animations for additional study.