This requires a free plug-in, Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can find out if you need it by clicking on the PDF link. Grades K-2 Objective Students will be able to create, extend, and describe arithmetic patterns. Students examine the patterns in a flower design made of triangles surrounding a square. They complete a table listing the number of triangles needed to complete various flower designs.
Students also make tables showing the cost of buying different cut-outs of flowers.
These charts will be used once they begin their flower sale. The lesson culminates with students making brightly colored tissue paper flowers and the advertising posters. Activity Sheets are located at the bottom of the .pdf Lesson Plan. Activity Sheets are located at the bottom of the .pdf Lesson Plan. Procedure Open the class with a discussion about an upcoming fund-raiser event where the students will sell tissue paper flowers which they will make.