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. They predict the perimeter of ten squares. They test their rule on some new problems and check whether their rule works by multiplying the numbers on the calculator. References Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Magic Seed.