Do you need an intuitive, visual activity that will help scaffold students towards a deep understanding of linear expressions? You should try this resource and lesson plan.

Students of many abilities, and with varying degrees of prior knowledge, will find this activity to be approachable and manageable. Whether students represent the included patterns with drawings, words, or formal algebraic expressions, they will be challenged to think “algebraically” in order to analyze, extend, and represent the patterns as they move from one stage to the next.

Included in this resource:

· 4 different patterns, each with follow up questions requiring students to analyze and extend a pattern as well as write and describe their process for forming corresponding expressions.

· Facilitator notes with standards and suggested questions and teaching strategies.

· Suggestions for differentiation.

· Exit ticket.

This activity and lesson is great for introducing students to using expressions to represent linear patterns and arithmetic sequences at nearly any level and can be used at almost any point in an algebra study.

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• Extend Visual Patterns to Write Expressions Poster Project - which is a follow up activity to this resource OR
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