Presents activities involving patterns that can deepen young students' understandings of patterns. (ASK)

Describes the Circle Scribe Disk Compass and explains its use in helping children to explore patterns and geometry. Topics include Fibonnacci's spiral and regular polygons. (MM)

Shares how students worked on a geometry activity that emphasizes patterns featured in this journal. (ASK)

Describes an activity in which students investigate patterns and discrete mathematics found in telephone numbers. (YDS)

Presents an activity that uses combinations of Cuisenaire rods of length one or two to make various lengths and trains. (ASK)

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)

This collection of activities is designed to show how graphics display calculators can be used to explore pentominoes and tangrams. Activities include games and puzzles developing spatial relations. Teaching notes, solutions, and calculator instructions are included as are blackline masters. (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)

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

Presents a mathematics problem on patterns. Outlines and discusses the general problem-solving procedures. (ASK)

Presents an activity for identifying patterns in the book "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle. The book is appropriate for teaching many concepts including time, developing an alternative story line, and constructing a new book to involve children in thinking about how time passes on a clock as part of exploring patterns. (ASK)

Provides some examples of mathematics problems that have solutions involving triangular numbers. Illustrates the observation of number patterns from which conjectures and generalizations can be made. Suggests other extensions for further investigation. (ASK)

Presents an activity introducing probability and patterns to multigrade students. Uses the storybook "The Thirteen Days of Halloween" to demonstrate numbers, patterns, and probability. (ASK)

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)