Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Start Here! Ready to Add More Detail to Your Dino Skin?
In this lesson we are going to learn how to use 2D curves and 3D surfaces to generate organic looking patterns for our skin (known as Perlin noise). By the end of this lesson, you'll be adding multiple resolutions of noise to your...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Shading Packets?
This video [3:01] activity students learn what shading packets are and how they are used to create patterns such as a dinosaur"s skin.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Shading Packets Practice
In this nine-problem exercise, students are presented with a reference for the dinosaur leg. They practice with this before moving onto real shading packets.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Distributing Sites Randomly
This video [2:41] lesson, students learn about the best way to distribute points randomly. They can explore the interactive program used in the two video links provided.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns
Encourage students to use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to build their own patterns or recreate one from given square arrays.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Patch Tool
Use this tool to design a pattern using geometric shapes.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Tooth
Read this spooky rhyme and then use the activity page to create patterns with Halloween candy. The teacher's guide and extra challenges will help teachers make fun and interesting lesson plans.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Visit Tessellation Town on Tile Island!
Go to Tessellation Town on Tile Island and create a variety of tessellations.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Cyber Pattern Player
Create a melodic pattern with this interactive pattern player and listen to funky patterns that are already created.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Coin Puzzles
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a fun warm-up game asking students to arrange coins into different shapes. Teachers are encouraged to use pennies and have students perform at their desks.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Building Stars
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to color in a tessellation that is different from the usual. Read the short introduction to find out more about this tessellation that doesn't repeat.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Train Carriages
On this one page website sharpen your logic and pattern creation skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Month Mania
Sharpen your logic and pattern-creation skills while working on this challenge. A solution is available to check your results.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Ice Cream
Sharpen your logic and pattern creation skills performing this fun game. Includes solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sweets in a Box
Improve logic and pattern creation skills performing this game. Includes solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Tessellating Triangles
The challenge at this one page website, involves tessellation and triangle. Should you accept this challenge, you will find helpful teacher notes and the solution available right at the website.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Table for 19 (Pdf)
The waiters at Polygon's Restaurant need your help. See if you can use your problem solving and patterning skills to help them solve this math challenge. Discover how developing these skills could be useful in real life situations, in...
Other
Saskatoon Public Schools: Sorting and Patterns
There are a variety of activities here for students to practise identifying and creating patterns.