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Title: Math: Patterns
Description: These sites show different patterns with numbers and objects. Learn how to decipher patterns, then try to determine what comes next in several online pattern games. Also includes classroom activity ideas. There are links to eThemes Resources on Math: Virtual Manipulatives and Math: Tessellations.
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5
Resource Links: I Repeat!
Sing along this song to learn rules of patterns.

Number Cracker
Guess what number comes next in a series of numbers. Grade level depends on level of game played.

Meet Paul Pattern
This interactive game can teach kids how to recognize a pattern.

Patterns: Logic
Play this interactive game to discover the pattern by asking questions and eliminating buttons until you find the pattern. Click on the "Number Patterns" and "Word Patterns" links for more pattern activities.

Pattern Activities for Students
These activities focus on students noticing the details and patterns in objects.

Learning Patterns
This site teaches patterns in three steps: making patterns, describing patterns, and extending pattern understanding. Read the instructions and then build your own pattern.

Learning about Number Relationships
This site allows you to add up numbers using an online calculator and then see what type of pattern appears on the number board.

Grouping with Patterns
Look at the animation to see how grouping with patterns can help you count and solve math problems.

Patterns: What Comes Next?
Choose the object that would appear next in the pattern.

Color Patterns Game
Finish the pattern in this interactive game by choosing what color comes next.

Math Workbook
Browse the worksheets for finding missing numbers in the numerical patterns.

ThinkQuest: Number Patterns
Try these number patterns, then click on the "Mystery Pattern" link under the "Rock N Troll" button to match patterns of various objects.

Knotwork Applet
Create your Celtic pattern online. NOTE: The site leads to websites with ads.

edHelper: Mathematical Sequences and Number Patterns
This page has links to a number of patterns worksheets, puzzles, and a problem solving.

Pascal's Triangle
Printout the worksheet and find the patterns in Pascal's triangles.

eThemes Resource: Math: Tessellations
This eThemes Resource has sites that explain how to create tessellations with polygons using rotation and reflection. Also includes information about artist M.C. Escher and examples of his tessellation artwork. There are several interactive games for manipulating patterns online.

eThemes Resource: Math: Virtual Manipulatives and Online Games
This is a collection of interactive math manipulation sites. The mathematical concepts that are covered include graphing, money, shapes and number relationships. Includes links to eThemes Resources on tessellations, circle graphs/pie charts, and estimation, rounding, and money.

Education Standards: MO Standards:
1, 4, 6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7


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Reviewed December 7, 2004.

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