For example, in November, even dates might be marked with a snowflake, and odd dates with a picture of a turkey. Or, they might mark each date with the day of the week. Students create a pattern using various rubber stamp blocks or picture designs. They color congruent shapes of a mosaic design with the same color. Use tables, rules, variables, open sentences, and graphs to describe patterns and other relationships.
Students complete a table given several starting numbers and a verbal rule.
Kindergartners look at Anno's Counting House by Mitsumasa Anno to see if they can figure out the pattern that is used in moving from one set of pages to the next. The people in this book move, one by one, from one house to another. Students use colored squares to make a graph showing the multiples of 3 and relate this to a table and an expression involving a variable, such as 3 x . 3. Use concrete and pictorial models to explore the basic concept of a function. Students study the pictures in Anno's Math Games II by Mitsumasa Anno.