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Patterns in Linear Equations
Strand: Patterns and Relations (Patterns)
Outcomes: 1 and 2
Step 1: Identify Outcomes to Address
Guiding Questions
- What do I want my students to learn?
- What can my students currently understand and do?
- What do I want my students to understand and be able to do, based on the Big Ideas and specific outcomes in the program of studies?
See Sequence of Outcomes from the Program of Studies
Big Ideas
- Patterns represent identified regularities.
Types of patterns include complex repeating
patterns, increasing and decreasing
patterns, and recursive patterns (Small
2009, p.3).
- A variable is a symbol that can stand
for any one of a set of numbers or
other objects and can be represented
by boxes or letters (Van de Walle and
Lovin 2006, p. 274).
- Patterns are key factors in understanding
mathematical concepts. The ability
to create, recognize and extend patterns
is essential for making generalizations,
seeing relationships and understanding
the order and logic of mathematics
(Burns 2000, p. 112).
- Patterns can be recognized, extended
and generalized into symbols, words,
diagrams, number lines, charts and
graphs (Van de Walle and Lovin 2006,
p. 265).
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