Visual Patterns is a very simple and wonderful website, created by a public middle school teacher in Southern California named Fawn Nguyen. The site is essentially a collection of 157 different visual patterns (and growing). For each pattern, you are given the first three figures/stages of the pattern. For example,
The NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets are student-facing materials organized by different topics in math. The activities in the packet are sequenced so that the concepts build as students develop an understanding of the topic. Since the materials were written for self-study, adaptations for the classroom are encouraged. Tim Berrigan, from the Brooklyn Public Library, created … Continue reading Adaptation of Visual Patterns – the catapult pattern (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
The NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets are student-facing materials organized by different topics in math. The activities in the packet are sequenced so that the concepts build as students develop an understanding of the topic. Since the materials were written for self-study, adaptations for the classroom are encouraged. Tim Berrigan, from the Brooklyn Public Library, created … Continue reading Adaptation of Growing Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
The NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets are student-facing materials organized by different topics in math. The activities in the packet are sequenced so that the concepts build as students develop an understanding of the topic. Since the materials were written for self-study, adaptations for the classroom are encouraged. Tim Berrigan, from the Brooklyn Public … Continue reading Adaptation of Repeating Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
This activity, from YouCubed.org’s Week of Inspirational Math, is a great way to start a class, especially if you will be looking at factoring, division or the properties of numbers: prime/composite, odd/even, etc. The activity can be as simple as handing out the image below and asking students to write the number they see above … Continue reading Number Visuals