ALEX Resources

Title: Patterns, Patterns, Everywhere
Description: An interactive lesson on teaching about patterns and finding patterns in the environment. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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[MA2015] (3) 9:

Title: Shapes on the Way Home
Description: This reproducible chart, from an Illuminations lesson, prompts students to search for and list shapes they find as they walk home from school. They record each shape's name, where it was found and whether it is a plane or solid figure.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Hopping on the Number Line
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students generate products using the number line model. The order property is also introduced. In the lesson, students are encouraged to predict the products and to answer puzzles involving multiplication.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Repeating and Growing Patterns
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create and explore more complex patterns such as growing patterns, which have related but different relationships to repeating patterns. Students form generalizations, analyze, and describe growing patterns using connecting-cubes and then explore what happens when growing patterns double or split.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Geometric Solids and Their Properties
Description: In this five-lesson unit from Illuminations, students analyze characteristics and properties of three-dimensional geometric shapes; develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships; and use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems. After being introduced to shapes, they look for patterns, construct a solid, and build a shape jacket.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Looking for Patterns
Description: This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, focuses on the properties of multiplication. Students skip count, examine multiplication patterns, and explore commutativity.
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[MA2015] (5) 3:

Title: Understanding Distance, Speed, and Time Relationships
Description: In this two-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students use a software simulation of two runners along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the race and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship. They examine graphs of related data and investigate scenarios involving constant rates of change.
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[MA2015] (5) 23:

Title: Playing with Patterns
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use objects and symbols to make repeating linear patterns. They also extend patterns and translate patterns from one modality (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) to another.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: The Fibonacci Series
Description: The purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to appreciate and investigate a numerical pattern and to look for evidence of mathematical patterns in nature. In this lesson, students explore the Fibonacci series. They identify the pattern among the Fibonacci numbers, look for applications of these numbers, and explore the ways that this pattern can be related to objects and shapes in both the natural and designed world.
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[MA2015] (7) 6:

Title: Patterns That Grow
Description: In this five-lesson unit, from Illuminations, 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. These lessons give students an opportunity to create and analyze numeric and geometric patterns. Particular emphasis is placed on growing patterns.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Patterns That Grow: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend, and translate patterns. They make patterns with numbers and shapes and then explore patterns in a variety of mathematical contexts. The lesson includes a link to an interactive online shape tool.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Many Ways to Create Patterns
Description: This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, accommodates multiple learning styles as students create patterns using different forms. For example, students use body movement or kinesthetic experiences to create and copy patterns. Students use knowledge and skills in new situations to develop a solid understanding of the process for creating patterns, recognizing pattern sequences, and representing patterns in different ways.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Exploring Other Number Patterns
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students analyze numeric patterns, including Fibonacci numbers. They also describe numeric patterns and then record them in table form.
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[MA2015] (5) 3:

Title: Patterns on Charts
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students find, record, and analyze patterns on hundred and multiplication charts. They also use an interactive online shape tool and an online calculator to generate patterns and then record them on a chart.
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[MA2015] (5) 19:

Title: What Comes Nex_?: A Lesson in Patterns and Sorting
Description: This lesson, from Illuminations, deals with patterns and the importance of looking at data from more than a single perspective. Students work to extend patterns and classify items as they investigate a series of items that appear to be ordered in some obvious ways.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: What's Next?
Description: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, 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.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Banana Banana Meatball: Pattern Math
Description: In this activity, students will visit the GoNoodle website and learn a catchy tune about patterns. Students will then demonstrate their knowledge of patterns by collaboratively creating and designing their own pattern and tune in a Flipgrid post. This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Artistic Spiderwebs
Description: In this learning activity, students will discover how spider webs are made by watching a short video.  Students will compare photographs of spider webs and look for patterns.  Finally, students will create a 3-dimensional patterned spider web using geometric shapes and lines.   This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
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[ARTS] VISA (4) 2:

Title: Pattern Pizzazz
Description: This activity is an excellent reinforcement activity for students to explore patterns using shapes, letters, and numbers. The activity can be used individually or in groups of 2 or 3 students.  This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Ten Marks Personalized Math
Description: Ten Marks provides multiple choice questions for students in 2nd grade through Geometry.  With a minimum of ten math subtopics per grade level, this tool can be used as an whole group or individual.  The teacher manages the assignments and is able to view individualized reports.  Students are guided through questions and have on screen access to audio/video instruction.  When the assignment is complete, students receive immediate feedback and explanations for review. Access is available 24 hours/day, seven days per week.
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[MA2015] (7) 6:

Title: Number and Operations Web Links
Description: This collection of Web links, reviewed and presented by Illuminations, offers teachers and students information about and practice in concepts related to arithmetic. Users can read the Illuminations Editorial Board's review of each Web site, or choose to link directly to the sites.
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[MA2015] (5) 26:

Title: Learning Geometry and Measurement Concepts by Creating Paths and Navigating Mazes: Hiding Ladybug
Description: This stand-alone applet is part of the Illuminations lesson titled '' Helping Ladybug Hide with Arrows and Angles.'' In the lesson, students use this applet to hide a ladybug under a leaf.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: Communicating about Mathematics Using Games: Playing Fraction Tracks
Description: Mathematical games can foster mathematical communication as students explain and justify their moves to one another. In addition, games can motivate students and engage them in thinking about and applying concepts and skills. This e-example from Illuminations contains an interactive version of a game that can be used in the grades 3-5 classroom to support students' learning about fractions. 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.
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[MA2015] (5) 26:

Title: Learning about Number Relationships and Properties of Numbers Using Calculators and Hundred Boards: Displaying Number Patterns
Description: 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.
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[MA2015] (4) 5:

Title: How Do You Unlock a Secret Code?
Description: Cryptologists study secret codes. Being able to read encoded German and Japanese communications enabled the Allies to achieve victory in World War II., Join us as we explore how the code was cracked. By the end of this wonder, you may be making and breaking secret codes, too!
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[MA2015] (6) 29:

Title: Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Extending Pattern Understandings
Description: This is part three of a three-part e-example from Illuminations that highlights different aspects of students' understanding and use of patterns. This part, Extending Pattern Understandings, demonstrates ways in which students begin to create a '' unit of units,'' or a grouping that can be repeated, and begin to relate two patterns in a functional relationship. e-Math Investigations are selected e-examples from the electronic version of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (PSSM). Given their interactive nature and focused discussion tied to the PSSM document, the e-examples are natural companions to the i-Math Investigations.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (4) 5: