3-5
In this lesson, students participate in an activity in which they
conduct a survey, analyze and summarize the data they collect, and draw
conclusions from their findings. This lesson plan was adapted from the
article "Picture This" by Marty Hopkins, which appeared in
Teaching Children Mathematics, February 1998, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 354-59.
3-5
Students begin their study of growing patterns by making linear
patterns with pattern block shapes using several pattern cores. They
extend a partner’s pattern and find the missing element in a pattern.
3-5
Students find, record, and analyze patterns on hundred and
multiplication charts. They also use an online calculator to generate
patterns and then record the patterns on a chart.
3-5
Students use numbers to make growing patterns. They create, analyze,
and describe growing patterns and then record them. They also analyze a
special growing pattern called Pascal’s triangle.
3-5
In this final lesson of the Unit, students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend, and translate patterns. They make patterns with numbers and shapes and explore patterns in a variety of mathematical contexts.
3-5
Students analyze numeric patterns, including Fibonacci numbers. They also
describe numeric patterns and then record them in table form.
3-5
Students investigate the ways shapes can be divided into equal pieces
with one or two cuts. The lesson provides a review of the following vocabulary
terms:
square, triangle, and rectangle; congruent, one-half, and one-fourth.
The other lessons in this unit build on this introductory lesson.
3-5
Students create designs and describe them to a classmate, using fractional and geometric terms. This lesson provides a context for using the following vocabulary terms: horizontal, vertical, square, rectangle, triangle, diagonal, one-half, and one-fourth.
3-5
This lesson encourages students to explore the geometric transformation
of rotation, reflection and translation more fully. Students create a
design then, using flips, turns, and slides, make a 4-part paper
"mini-quilt" square with that design as the basis. This experience
focuses students’ attention on both the changes produced by the
geometric transformations and on line symmetry.
3-5
Students create a quilt using the three transformations and investigate the ways shapes can be colored to show one-half and one-fourth. They locate lines of symmetry and create a set of directions for making their quilt block.
