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...
Lesson Plan
Other

The Actuarial Foundation: Math Academy: Can You See It in Nature? [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners will build, extend, describe, predict, graph and generate rules for patterns and functions designed to help students understand the connection between geometric and numerical patterns (younger learners) as well as between...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
Activity
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...
Activity
Other

Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A comprehensive instructional activity on algebraic thinking where students create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this instructional activity includes technology connections, items for discussion, and...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fraction Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will participate in a hands-on lesson about dividing a whole object into parts. They will also practice simple addition.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U...
Handout
Other

Helping With Math: Generating Patterns & Identifying Relationships

For Students 5th Standards
A tutorial and downloadable worksheets that practice generating patterns and identifying relationships. It offers a pretest, an explanation with examples, practice, and a test.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading a Thermometer

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns how to read a thermometer as they try to keep their chocolate sculpture from melting.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shape Makers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this Five E's AMSTI lesson, students discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions with...