Pattern activities can be used to teach students how to evaluate, generalize and express functional relationships as well as develop their algebraic reasoning skills. This activity involves using objects to explore mathematical problems. Learning is supported through concrete manipulatives and an activity sheet.

Activity Instructions

Students should be divided into groups and provided with the activity sheet and interlocking cubes. The activity sheet delivers the necessary instructions to complete each task and can be used as a visual guide as students extend their patterns.

To differentiate, activities will become progressively harder. Advanced students will progress through to the extension activity (can be completed independently or in their small groups), whilst those unable to understand the essentials can focus on the basic concepts involved with identifying pattern rules. The replication and extension of the patterns will be need to be completed using concrete manipulatives.

The groups will move back into a whole class setting for discussion. Each group will verbalize their understanding of each pattern's underlying rule and explain the strategies they used to identify this rule.

This product covers the following material:

- Growing/increasing patterns

- Shrinking/decreasing patterns

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Total Pages

1 page

Answer Key

N/A

Teaching Duration

45 minutes

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS2.NBT.B.5

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

CCSS2.OA.A.1

Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

CCSS2.OA.B.2

Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

CCSS2.OA.C.3

Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.

CCSS2.OA.C.4

Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.

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