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Pixel Pattern ActivityPixel Pattern Activity
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101 Questions
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Guided Practice
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Internet Access
Year
2012
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Pixel Pattern

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This Pixel Pattern activity also includes:
  • Pixel Pattern
  • The Dimensions of the Pixel Pattern
  • A Close Up of Seconds 2-4
  • The Dimensions of the System
  • Answer: 49 Seconds
  • Aspect Ratio Description
  • Answer: 1.5
  • Activity
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Any vintage video game users in the room? Young scholars use a video presentation to analyze patterns in pixel arrangements. By writing an arithmetic sequence, they make predictions about the size of the image.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

sequences, patterns, series, arithmetic sequences, dimensions

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Give pupils manipulatives to recreate the pattern
  • Incorporate during a sequence and series unit

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires previous experience with area and linear dimensions

Pros

  • Challenges learners to use higher order thinking skills
  • Provides an answer document

Cons

  • None

Common Core

HSF-LE.A.2 MP4

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