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Opening the Top Drawer to Patterns Module 1

Patterns are everywhere

Duration: 50 minutes

Year levels: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation

Category: Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Solids, Solids, Solids, Solids, Solids, Solids, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation

Proficiency standards: Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Understanding, Understanding, Understanding, Understanding, Understanding, Understanding

AITSL standards: 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 1.2 Understand how students learn, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice, 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice

Use: Groups of Teachers, Groups of Teachers, Groups of Teachers, Groups of Teachers, Groups of Teachers, Groups of Teachers

Teaching practices: Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Technology, Technology, Technology, Technology, Technology, Technology

Patterns can be found in a wide variety of situations; in nature, music, art, and the built environment. Students enjoy looking for patterns around them.

This module addresses one of the big ideas of patterns, that is patterns are everywhere. Participants are exposed to many different patterns that children could identify: visual patterns in sliced fruit, fabrics, brickwork; number patterns in counting; movement patterns in a dance; lyrics in a nursery rhyme; notes in a simple song. There is the opportunity to use resources from Scootle and to explore patterns online. Teachers will be able to refresh their understandings of patterns and to explore them further.

This module is one of five modules about Patterns; the others are: mathematical patterns are regular, patterns repeat, patterns can grow, and patterns can be found in shapes.

Thinking about patterns are everywhere is based on some of the material found in AAMT’s Top Drawer Teachers.

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