The Visual Patterns site contains over 150 patterns to use with students of all ages. There are loads of ways to integrate visual patterns into your instruction. By reading through the "teacher" menu, you will get the idea.
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What I appreciate about this site is its open ended/open mindedness. As a teacher you can take this resource in a bunch of different directions. Offered here is how I did it with my students. The activity shared above helps the teacher lead students through finding, extending, graphing and then classifying the pattern as either linear or nonlinear. Intuitively, students will begin making predictions and then look for common threads between the different classifications.
This gives a better idea of how I ask students to organize their work and what their product may look like.
In this blog entry and the other ones I write, I intend to show how I weave technology applications into my math classes. It's a joy to share. That's why I make all of the documents editable. Feel free to use them in any form that suits you and your students.
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