Grade 1 Unit 3: Growing Patterns

In this activity, students will investigate, create, extend, and explain growing patterns. Georgia K-12 Mathematics Standards: 1.MP: Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals. Expectations: 1.MP.1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 1.MP.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 1.MP.3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 1.MP.5: Use appropriate tools strategically. 1.MP.6: Attend to precision. 1.PAR.3: Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns found in real-life situations. Expectations: 1.PAR.3.2 Identify, describe, and create growing, shrinking, and repeating patterns based on the repeated addition or subtraction of 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. 1.NR.2: Explain the relationship between addition and subtraction and apply the properties of operations to solve real-life addition and subtraction problems within 20. Expectations: 1.NR.2.1 Use a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems within 20. 1.NR.2.2 Use pictures, drawings, and equations to develop strategies for addition and subtraction within 20 by exploring strings of related problems. 1.NR.2.7 Apply properties of operations as strategies to solve addition and subtraction problem situations within 20.

By Michael Wiernicki