This resource will have you make a clone of a Go Formative document. This is a free website where teachers and students can interact digitally.

In this lesson, students will generate and analyze an algebraic pattern. Students will describe two different patterns. The first pattern taken from Koch's Snowflakes and the second pattern taken from a population of wolves and rabbits.

In this lesson students explore different repeating patterns in music to predict when two or more events will occur at the same time. They are encouraged to create patterns and draw conclusions. In doing so they learn to predict the least common factor of up to three numbers.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about completing the number patterns based on the multiplication table.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about finding the number from figure patterns.

In this task, students will observe a snake’s length during its first three years of life.  Students will analyze patterns, make generalizations, and formulate function rules for determining the snake’s length at any year of its life.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will explore patterns by looping a string and determining how many pieces there will be based on the number of cuts made.  Students will create a table for the pattern and analyze the features of the pattern to determine the rule for the pattern.  Students will use a model to consider explicit thinking (what is happening across the columns) versus recursive thinking (down the table columns). 

In this lesson students explore patterns in the context of placing garden pavers. 

In this lesson students use legos to build, examine, and reason about patterns. 

In this lesson students explore patterns in the context of a recipe to make party punch. 

In this lesson, students will find and use a pattern to calculate the sum of all fractional parts between 0 and 1.

Explain to students that we're working with just two digits, so they are called binary digits. They are so common that we have a short name for them: write "binary digit" on a piece of paper, then rip off the "bi" at the start, and the "t" at the end, put it together and ask what the combined word ("bit") spells. This is the short name for a binary digit, so the 5 cards that they have are actually 5 bits.

Using the online interactive, students use pattern attributes to answer questions. Students
have the option to skip the problem or check their answer before submitting it. Their progress is tracked and shown above each problem.

Students are provided with a scenario and asked to determine which amounts of postage is it impossible to make using only five-cent and seven-cent stamps? The mathematics task is intended to be a problem or question that encourages the use of mathematical practices. The dialogue is meant to show how students might engage in the mathematical practices as they work on the task.

Building on students' intuitive understandings of patterns and number relationships, teachers can further the development of number concepts and logical reasoning as described in the Number and Operations and Reasoning and Proof Standards. In this two-part example from Illuminations, virtual hundred boards and calculators furnish a visual way of highlighting and displaying various patterns and relationships among numbers. Using calculators and hundred boards together, teachers can encourage students to communicate their thinking with others, as discussed in the Communication Standard. In this first part, Displaying Number Patterns, the same patterns are displayed on a calculator and on a hundred board simultaneously. In the second part, Patterns to 100 and Beyond, students examine number patterns, using a calculator to move beyond 100. e-Math Investigations are selected e-examples from the electronic version of the Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (PSSM). The e-examples are part of the electronic version of the PSSM document. Given their interactive nature and focused discussion tied to the PSSM document, the e-examples are natural companions to the i-Math investigations.

Students will use knowledge and skill in learning opportunities and investigations to develop a basic understanding of the process of creating patterns, recognizing pattern sequences, and will connect growing patterns to the five representations.