Digging Deeper Math: Pattern Blocks Math - Unit 1 (K-3rd Grades)

Promote number sense, special reasoning, and higher level thinking!

Make math lessons both challenging and exciting!

--Your students can solve real-world child-friendly problems through these math chats. Students who have a variety of skill levels can successfully work through these word problems. This includes special needs, typical, advanced, and reluctant learners.

--Read the included script while you demonstrate with pattern blocks!

--Teach these lessons as interactive, hands-on, a lesson a week... or whatever works for you!

--Develop critical thinking skills rapidly as your students manipulate the pattern blocks, while thinking and talking math!

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► Introduction ◄

Delight your students when it's time to get out the pattern blocks (math tools):

• Suitable for students K-3rd of all abilities.

• Print out the included pattern pieces (hexagons, trapezoids, rhombuses, triangles)

• Interesting patterns for the students to recreate.

• Hand-made engaging characters throughout your printouts.

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► CCSS & Lessons ◄

♥ Getting to know pattern blocks

♥ Counting, joining, addition

♥ Joining and adding after constructing a picture

♥ Counting by 2s

♥ Changing values; addition

♥ Joining; addition

♥ Introducing fractions

♥ Counting by 4s; repeated addition; multiplication concepts

♥ Addition, multiplication concepts; reasoning

♥ Multiplication and division concepts

♥ Fractions; multiplication; addition with regrouping

♥ Fractions; mixed numbers; addition

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