Curriculum Area:

Mathematics

Grade Level:

1 and up

Age Level:

6 and up

Materials Checklist:

Student worksheet, construction paper, color pencils, and scissors.

Major Learning Outcomes:

Students find, create, and describe patterns.

• The search for patterns is fundamental to mathematics at all grade levels.
• Patterns help children see order and make sense of the underlying structures of things, situations, and experiences.
• Patterns help children make predictions.
• Students measure geometric figures and visualize and represent shapes. This work leads to generalizations such as formulas for area and perimeter.

Suggested Grouping:

Individual students or cooperative learning groups.

Time required:

One class period.

The Activity:

1. Students make a triangle on the grid.

2. Students make a triangle twice as big and four times as big as the first one.

3. Students do the same with a square.