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Algebra: It Really is Patterns!

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Learning Experience 1

• Clapping Patterns [Students use their bodies to demonstrate a pattern. For example: Clap your hands twice, slap your knees once AAB pattern. Use interlocking cubes of two colors to represent the same AAB pattern. Example: two red, one blue, two red, one blue, etc...
• Pattern Trains
• Assessment [Have students build their own pattern using interlocking cubes and then draw it on paper]

Description of slide image: Three paragraphs are in a circle, with arrows pointing from one paragraph to the next in a clockwise direction. "Repeating Patterns" has an arrow pointing to "What Comes Next? Color, shape, symbol, number", which has an arrow pointing to "Students should be able to predict, extend, explain" which has an arrow pointing to the first item again ("Repeating Patterns")