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Elizabeth Suazo-Flores; Lisa Roetker – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
The Building Painted Cubes Task is a groupworthy algebraic task. Students build cubes using linking unit cubes, search for algebraic patterns, and report findings on posters. This task can create spaces for students to see themselves as doers of mathematics.
Descriptors: Algebra, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Activities, Cooperative Learning
Ling, Meng Kay Daniel; Loh, Sau Cheong – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
The understanding of the relationships between pattern recognition and mathematical abilities is important for students in their learning of mathematics and mathematics teachers in the design of their teaching pedagogies. This study examines the connections between pattern recognition and mathematical abilities of students from four Singapore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Wares, Arsalan; Custer, David – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Generalizing, conjecturing, representing, justifying, and refuting are integral parts of algebraic thinking and mathematical thinking in general (Lannin et al., 2011). The activity described in this article makes a case for generalizing as an overall mindset for any introductory algebra or geometry class by illustrating how generalization problems…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Geometry, Algebra, Spatial Ability
Burazin, Andrijana; Kajander, Ann; Lovric, Miroslav – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
Continuing our critique of the classical derivation of the formula for the area of a disk, we focus on the limiting processes in geometry. Evidence suggests that intuitive approaches in arguing about infinity, when geometric configurations are involved, are inadequate, and could easily lead to erroneous conclusions. We expose weaknesses and…
Descriptors: Mathematical Formulas, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Geometry
Zwanch, Karen; Broome, Bridget – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Generalizing patterns is an important feature of algebraic reasoning that is accessible to students across grade-levels because it connects their numerical reasoning to algebraic reasoning. In this article, the authors describe how teachers can use the game Crack the Code to introduce generalizing to their students or can extend students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction
Somasundram, Piriya – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Algebraic thinking in children can bridge the cognitive gap between arithmetic and algebra. This quantitative study aimed to develop and test a cognitive model that examines the cognitive factors influencing algebraic thinking among Year Five pupils. A total of 720 Year Five pupils from randomly selected national schools in Malaysia participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Skills
Mhlolo, Michael Kainose – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2016
The concept of pattern recognition lies at the heart of numerous deliberations concerned with new mathematics curricula, because it is strongly linked to improved generalised thinking. However none of these discussions has made the deceptive nature of patterns an object of exploration and understanding. Yet there is evidence showing that pattern…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 11, Algebra
McGarvey, Lynn M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2013
This article describes how in early mathematics learning, young children are often asked to recognize and describe visual patterns in their environment--perhaps on their clothing, a toy, or the carpet; around a picture frame; or in the playground equipment. Exploring patterns in the early years is seen as an important introduction to algebraic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Concepts, Preschool Children
Huang, Rongjin; Prince, Kyle M.; Schmidt, Teresa – Mathematics Teacher, 2014
The importance of developing reasoning and justification has been highlighted in "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (NCTM 2000). The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSI 2010) further reiterates the importance of reasoning and proof in several standards for mathematical practice. Students of all grades are…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Applications
McGarvey, Lynn M. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2012
Mathematics curricula in the early years emphasize exploring patterns as an important stepping stone to algebraic thinking. Key expectations for young children are for them to recognize and describe visual patterns in the environment. When children are asked to identify patterns, what criteria do they apply to make a decision and on what do they…
Descriptors: Criteria, Algebra, Young Children, Mathematics Instruction
Samson, Duncan – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2012
Pattern generalisation has become an important feature of mathematics classrooms around the globe. Sometimes these activities focus purely on given numerical terms, but the use of pictorial or figural patterns is now becoming part of the standard repertoire for such generalisation exercises. From a pedagogic point of view, the investigation of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
Beigie, Darin – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2011
Initial exposure to algebraic thinking involves the critical leap from working with numbers to thinking with variables. The transition to thinking mathematically using variables has many layers, and for all students an abstraction that is clear in one setting may be opaque in another. Geometric counting and the resulting algebraic patterns provide…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Geometric Concepts, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Stump, Sheryl L. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2011
What is the role of patterns in developing algebraic reasoning? This important question deserves thoughtful attention. In response, this article examines some differing views of algebraic reasoning, discusses a controversy regarding patterns, and describes how three types of patterns--in contextual problems, in growing geometric figures, and in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts
Whitin, Phyllis; Whitin, David J. – Young Children, 2011
The habit of looking for patterns, the skills to find them, and the expectation that patterns have explanations is an essential mathematical habit of mind for young children (Goldenberg, Shteingold, & Feurzeig 2003, 23). Work with patterns leads to the ability to form generalizations, the bedrock of algebraic thinking, and teachers must nurture…
Descriptors: Investigations, Young Children, Grade 3, Algebra
Gierdien, Faaiz – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
This note presents demonstrations of mathematics that emerges when problems are posed with respect to a combined 12 x 12 multiplication table showing multiplier and multiplicand. Through processes such as recognizing and extending patterns, specializing and generalizing particular functional relationships between the diagonal and row sequences are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts