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Volume 6, Issue 8
December 8, 2017
Keeping Students Engaged As We Near Winter Break Visual Patterns, like the
Math Resources By Michelle Weekley
name suggests, supplies hundreds of patterns to
Several math websites offer higher level
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thinking for math students. Whether you use these for current standards you are working on or for review, each promises to keep students engaged and brains working. Which One Doesn’t Belong This site has groups of four things (graphs, numbers, or equations) and students decide which one doesn’t belong. Students then back up their answer with some sort of reasoning. In most problems, you can justify more than one answer. Open Middle has resources for kindergarten through high school. Questions from this site do not have a direct way of arriving at a right answer (the middle is open) which requires students to really understand concepts rather than just memorizing algorithms. Here’s an example of an Open Middle
problem for 5th grade. The directions
students find the next term, the 10th term, the nth term, or write an equation to represent it. You could also have students look at a few and classify them as linear, quadratic, etc. There are worksheet templates available on the site.
Play With Your Math has some very thought-provoking questions (like the one to the left) that will have students using that brain of theirs. Be careful! No answers are provided!
Yummy Math has worthwhile mathematical tasks that are broken down by grade level and standard. Most, if not all, tasks are related to actual real-life problem situations.