PBS
Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Patterns in Larger Numbers
Patterns are everywhere. We can use patterns to help us deal with larger numbers
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Finding Patterns in Fractals
Students will find patterns in fractals through this lesson plan and describe them mathematically. Students will use their prior knowledge of arithmetic with rational numbers in this lesson plan.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Nature, the Golden Ratio, and Fibonacci, Too
Looks at how spirals form in nature when cells reproduce in a flower, for example. An interactive lets students try entering different values to see if they can make a spiral pattern with no gaps. The correct figure would be the Golden...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Gnomon 1
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...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: The Path Difference
After looking at a representative two-point source interference pattern with accompanying order numbers, students investigate the rationale behind the numbering system, and develop some mathematical equations that relate the features of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Counting Beyond Our Fingers and Toes
Students will practice counting from 1-30 and having one-to-one correspondence with objects for these numbers. Also, they will practice finding patterns on a hundreds chart. This lesson includes a detailed plan, videos of students...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: It Figures!
Learn fraction multiplication with this fun tutorial.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: American Panorama: Foreign Born Population
Explore trends in immigration to the United States between 1850 and 2010 with this interactive map. Each year shows the numbers of people that were born in a foreign country, with the data being represented in multiple ways. Use the...