The activity, ‘Staircase Capers’ challenges students to find patterns in numbers that have been arranged in different shapes. After working on these examples, students may be interested in finding further examples in other contexts, for example, the numbers on a calendar. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
This patterns worksheet, ‘Stick Problems’ asks students to practise identifying and drawing basic patterns.
The learning activity, ‘Sticking Around’ asks students to work with a classmate to find quick ways of counting sticks that form a variety of patterns. They are encouraged to explain the rules in each example, discussing their thinking with a classmate. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
This learning activity, ‘Sticky Moments’, encourages students to build various stick patterns and look for systematic counting strategies to work out the total number of sticks in each pattern. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This patterns learning activity, ‘Street Track’ asks students to practise counting by twos.
This patterns and algebra worksheet, ‘Table of Value’ allows for practice creating and using tables to solve problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Table Time’, features tables of boots sold, tyres serviced, books given away, and theatre tickets sold. Students use the tables to organise number sequences and find patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This template, ‘Target’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
The learning activity ‘Teething Problems’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. Students need to use a range of strategies to support their thinking. The engaging problems involve a toothbrush, dominoes, and geometric shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Terrific Tiles’ can also be used as an engaging hands-on activity. It asks students to use tiles to replicate and expand patterns and then to identify rules for continuing each pattern. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This fun and engaging learning activity, ‘The Field of 100 Sheep’ uses arrays of colourful sheep to help students find out about patterns that can help them learn basic multiplication facts. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Matrix’ helps students to arrange data in a table, and then use that data to enable them to eliminate possibilities and solve a problem.
In this learning activity, ‘The Mystery of the Vanishing Pattern’, students must help Sherlock find the missing objects in his sequential patterns and then make up their own patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This understanding numbers learning activity, ‘Three in a Row’ asks students to practise counting by ten.
This graphic organiser, ‘Three-Ring Venn Diagram’ helps students to separate and sort information, then use this information to solve problems.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformation’ offers guidance on moving figures in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity ‘True or False?’ is designed to be used as a short starting point for a lesson. The problems will generate discussion about the way students think about solving problems, and the strategies they can use. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Tukutuku Patterns’ shows how M?ori in New Zealand weave patterns with flax to tell stories about their history. Students can replicate patterns and create their own, identifying the way elements are repeated and extended in different patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Type or Function’ encourages students to identify, classify and sort a variety of different objects into corresponding sets.
In this amusing learning activity, ‘Ups and Downs’ students plot the progress of two snails as they climb out of a well. Students use graphs and identify patterns in the snails’ movements. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Waka Widths’ is an interesting hands-on activity that uses ancient methods of canoe-making to help student explore the relationship between the diameter and the circumference of a circle using arm spans. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘What Comes Next?’ encourages students to predict and extend an existing pattern.
This patterns worksheet, ‘What Comes Next?’ asks students to practise identifying basic number patterns.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘What Doesn’t Belong’ encourages students to identify what object does not belong to a set.
This patterns and algebra worksheet, ‘What is the Rule?’ allows for practice using rules to analyse patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This patterns worksheet, ‘What’s Missing?’ asks students to practise identifying basic number patterns.
This understanding numbers worksheet, ‘What’s the Number?’ asks students to practise estimating on a number line.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘What’s the Pattern Core?’ encourages students to identify and describe the core of a pattern using objects and given examples.
The learning activity, ‘Where to Sit?’ uses a classroom seating situation to pose word problems. Students need to determine how many people can sit around tables when they are arranged in different ways. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Patterns and Rules’ contains several practical learning activities that will help students explore relationships between numbers in everyday situations. Students can select activities and compare their results with classmates. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In ‘Planning Paths’, students calculate the numbers of two kinds of tiles needed to build paths of different lengths. The learning activity helps students to explore patterns that have repeated spatial sequences, and to create their own patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes comprehensive teaching notes for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Robot Rescue’ asks students to identify and continue equation patterns. The strategies students use will give a good indication of their ability to describe relationships. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity ‘Shaping Up’ poses problems students need to discuss and solve by using number knowledge and strategies. Several of the problems require students to explore different ways of organising information. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
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