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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Kindergarten Patterning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Kindergarten math flipchart that prompts students to identify, create and extend patterns.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Pattern Block Template Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a review of circle, rectangle, square, triangle, and hexagon and introduces trapezoid and rhombus. Students are asked to identify the number of sides and the number of corners of...
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Curated OER

Working With Fractions Using Pattern Blocks

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students can download pattern block grid paper or cutouts for class activities. Included is an activity comparing the relationships of fractional parts called, "What's My Number?" Links available to other pattern block and fraction...
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Curated OER

Working With Fractions Using Pattern Blocks

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students can download pattern block grid paper or cutouts for class activities. Included is an activity comparing the relationships of fractional parts called, "What's My Number?" Links available to other pattern block and fraction...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
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Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Los Rompecabezas De Rosita

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In Spanish. Build different things with different shapes, recognize patterns with shapes, and find the errors in Rosita's story.
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Other

Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Choral Counting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using base ten blocks, students will develop the concept of ten more and ten less, moving from concrete representation to understanding of the unit of ten within ten more and ten less. Included is a detailed lesson plan with many...
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George Mason University

Handmade Manipulative Instructions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this personal site, you will find pages of math manipulatives and different types of graphing paper to print out and use in your classroom.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Same but Different

For Teachers 1st
Today, this common student answer will be the accepted one as students try to find different ways to fill in a hexagon.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Covering a Tanagram

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Covering designs using pattern blocks.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Gnomon 1

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to explore a specific number pattern named the "Fibonacci sequence." See what other patterns you can discover while you manipulate the blocks. There is a "Printable Page" link if you...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Well That's Different!

For Teachers 1st Standards
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Popcorn

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT explore the characteristics of cubes, pattern blocks, and geometry blocks. SWBAT count a set of objects up to 20 by 1's. SWBAT play the game "Greater Than" with a partner, using the correct vocabulary.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transforming Tangrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The student will use the transformations - rotation, reflection, translation - to create common shapes from tangram pattern blocks
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Congruent and Similar Figures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan where learners learn about congruent and similar figures by viewing models and by using geoboards, pattern blocks, and the Internet. (Note: Lesson cited in the procedures cannot be found at the link provided.)
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Filling the Shadow

For Teachers 1st Standards
Variety is the spice of life and the concept of the day as students fill the same pattern block outline three different ways.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Composing and Decomposing Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
Knowledge in Action! Today you will find out if the students are understanding the idea of decomposing and composing shapes with pattern blocks.
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Other

Rhythm Web: Clave Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn and practice typical rhythm patterns for the claves. The rhythms are written out in block patterns and are accompanied by midi examples.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometric Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.
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Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Red Escolar: Serpientes De Numeros

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In Spanish. Find the hidden sequence of numbers and color by following the given clues.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
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Playdough to Plato: First Grade Stem Activities

For Teachers K - 1st
This blog contains challenging STEM activities you can use to build confidence and take your teaching to the next level. Included are science, math, technology, and engineering activities.

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