Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing the Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice determing a number pattern and then completing the pattern.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: How Many Valentines?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students look for patterns to determine how many valentines will be distributed in a class of 28 students. After trying the problem, they can look at several other methods that could be used and compare the answer they got. There is also...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Pattern and Function

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Molly organizes her clothes in a pattern using functions.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Surfing Beach: Patterns

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Zeke likes surfing and hanging out at the beach. Join him and learn more about number patterns.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Common Number Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Developed by a mathematics teacher from the UK, this page identifies and illustrates several common number patterns.
Unit Plan
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...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing Growth Pattern Sequences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice identifying and continuing number patterns.
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Math Slice

Basic Math: Number Pattern

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource covers number patterns where students can choose a range of numbers and the type of pattern they would like to practice. After selecting parameters students are timed completing ten problems with instant feedback and an...
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
Website
Other

Link to Learning: Patterning and Algebra

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses aome of the Patterning and Algebra expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Patterns for Children: Moon Rock Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Moon Rock Patterns challenges students to identify and complete ten color patterns.
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...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail

For Students K - 1st Standards
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It

For Students 1st - 8th
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Continue Number Sequences

For Students 4th - 7th
Determine the rule to continue the number sequence.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Uncover Patterns in Number Sequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan provides an activity and discourse to help lead intermediate students through the pattern identification process.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Number Cracker (Number Series Game)

For Students 2nd - 5th
The Number Cracker needs you to help find a secret code by identifying the missing number in a series.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Think of Two Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic, and pattern recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Calendar Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern recognition skills while working on this calendar challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding the Number From the Figure Patterns

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine the division pattern in a series of number to find missing numbers. The video is followed by practice problems to assess student...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Magnifying Max

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This site has the view through Max's magnifying glass. The ants seem to be walking past him in a pattern, can you help him predict how many ants are coming next? Teachers will like the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra challenges.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Patterning and Algebra

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Large manipulatives and hands-on activities are used to teach patterns to Kindergarten and Grade One.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...