Using the same pattern as the song The Twelve Days of Christmas , the authors tell the story of a young girl on vacation by the ocean. Students learn about the different time zones across the country. They describe the number patterns found in moving from east to west, and vice versa. Students read books such as Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore or The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns. They explore the patterns and relationships found in these books.
Students study patterns in television programming.
For example, they might look at the number of commercials on TV in an hour or how many cartoon shows are on at different times of the day. They discuss the patterns that they find as well as possible reasons for those patterns. Form and verify generalizations based on observations of patterns and relationships. Students measure the length of one side of a square in inches. They make a table of values and describe a rule which relates the perimeter to the number of squares.