Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns
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.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Sequences
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of patterns in sequences. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
University of Regina (Canada)
Univeristy of Regina: Math Central: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere
This lesson plan on early patterning is well written, well planned, and extensive. The math content is substantial for this age. There are lots of connections to other content areas. Materials needed are readily available or provided for...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Sequencer
Learn about number patterns in sequences and recursions by specifying a starting number, multiplier, and add-on. The numbers in the sequence are displayed on a graph, and they are also listed below the graph.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Algebra: Sequences and Patterns
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.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: What Are Some Patterns in How Things Stick Together or Push Apart?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will start to develop their own computer simulation models of how attraction and repulsion between charged objects work.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing Growth Pattern Sequences
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must identify a simple pattern in a series of numbers and continue the pattern. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Relate Number Patterns to Multiplication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A practice quiz where students identify the multiplication pattern in a sequence and fill in related numbers without using multiplication.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding and Completing the Number Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must identify the pattern in a series of numbers and fill in the missing numbers. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Patterns (Object Interactive)
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of number patterns. Students get to control an animated squirrel in order to figure out terms in a sequence and see each pattern represented both in picture form,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Uncover Patterns in Number Sequences
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan provides an activity and discourse to help lead intermediate young scholars through the pattern identification process.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Area Patterns
Students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They will then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the number of blocks it will take to build a specific shape in the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Perimeter Patterns
In this activity, students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the perimeter of a specific shape in the sequence.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pattern and Practice
Students use knowledge and skills in new learning experiences to develop a basic understanding of the process for creating patterns, recognizing pattern sequences, representing patterns in different ways, and connecting numbers with...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Eiffel Tower: Patterns
Pierre lives in Paris near the Eiffel Tower. Join him to find out more about patterns.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Sierpinski's Carpet
Step through the generation of Sierpinski's Carpet, a fractal made from subdividing a square into nine smaller squares and cutting the middle one out. Explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Magnifying Max
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Next Shape in a Sequence of Complex Shapes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and try practice problems on identifying and continuing geometric patterns.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Next Decimal in a Sequence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are presented with a sequence of decimal numbers and they must identify the pattern rule and predict the next decimal. Includes...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Missing Decimals in a Sequence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are presented with a series of decimal numbers and must identify the pattern and fill in the missing numbers. Includes video...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Find the Next Number in This Sequence?
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. Can you figure out what comes next in the number sequence? Alex Gendler reveals the answer and explains how beyond just being a neat puzzle, this type of sequence has practical applications as well.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
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...