Presents activities designed to be worked on by parents and children together, and describes experiences in using the activities in school and home settings. Reviews patterns and arithmetic. (MM)

Described are patterns in Pascal's triangle which are obtained when the entries are reduced modulo a prime number. (MM)

Presents mathematical calculator activities used by students individually, in small groups, or as problems of the week. Suggests using calculators to enhance and stimulate student learning. (KHR)

Mathematical worksheets are presented for use in the elementary school classroom. The sheets deal with arithmetic and number patterns, one being for the primary grades, the other for grades 4 to 8. (RS)

Describes how the human body can be used to make sense of various number patterns and relationships. (YDS)

Article is a demonstration lesson in elementary school mathematics that concentrates on mathematical patterns. (GB)

Demonstrates how students' power to recognize and express patterns and generality can be exploited in a variety of different ways that are connected to both arithmetic and algebra. Uses the Tunja sequence approach to teach multiplication of negative numbers and simplification of factors. (KHR)

Demonstrates how to extend student awareness of a common computational pattern into the realm of algebraic thinking through carefully selected, sequenced activities and guided discussion. (YDS)

Explores the number problem of writing an expression for each of the unit fractions using any digit exactly four times. Includes tables of expressions for unit fractions. (MKR)

This document is a collection of activity-based mathematics lessons for grades K-4 from the "Ideas" department in "Arithmetic Teacher: Mathematics Education through the Middle Grades." Each lesson includes background information, objectives, directions, extensions, and student worksheets. A matrix is included which correlates…

Patterns in modular arithmetic are discussed: (1) multiplication tables, and (2) diagrams obtained by joining points on the circumference of a circle. (MM)