Students use mathematics in other curriculum areas.
Students use mathematics in their daily lives.
Students describe, extend, analyze, and create a wide variety of patterns. Students recognize, describe, extend and create a wide variety of patterns. Students learn that similar patterns may show up in many places in nature and in the things people make. Mathematicians have distinguished 13,000 single-component knots with 13 or fewer crossings, not counting mirror objects. The problem lies in the fact that two equivalent knots may have very different planar projections.