Growing patterns
Duration: 75 minutes
Year levels: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation, Foundation
Category: Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Algebra, Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Directed Numbers, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Geometry, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Operations, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Number Patterns, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Real Numbers, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Solids, Solids, Solids, Solids, Solids, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation, Transformation
Proficiency standards: Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, Reasoning, 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, 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, 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
Teaching practices: Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Engagement, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Group Work, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Student Learning, Technology, Technology, Technology, Technology, Technology
Participants watch a video which shows how a complex pattern can be constructed by adding successive ‘rings’ of pattern blocks around a central block, and then analyse it. There are other classroom activities which include constructing a block ‘staircase’, drawing rectangular grids, and patterns in paper-folding.
This module emphasises the structure of rectangular grids and arrays, and their importance in underpinning concepts of multiplication and area.
This module is one of five modules about Patterns; the others are: patterns are everywhere,mathematical patterns are regular, patterns repeat, and patterns can be found in shapes.
Thinking about growing patterns is based on some of the material found in AAMT’s Top Drawer Teachers.
