Unit 3

Standard 1: PATTERNS AND ALGEBRAIC REASONING: USE A VARIETY OF PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACHES TO ANALYZE, EXTEND AND CREATE PATTERNS

1.1 Discover, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of patterns using tables, graphs, rules, and models (e.g., use 1-inch tiles to demonstrate that doubling the length of the side of a square more than doubles the area, explore the characteristics of odd and even numbers, extend patterns of geometric shapes).

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Algebra

A whole set of online manipulatives

Bedroom Border

Missing Numbers

Online tutorial and quiz

Number Cracker

Funbrain

Patterns

Online lesson (with audio) and quiz

Spy Guys – Extending Patterns

Excellent Online Video Lesson and Quiz; Click Skip Intro, then select Lessons, and then click on Lesson 8

 

 

 

 

Standard 2: NUMBER SENSE: USE NUMBERS AND NUMBER RELATIONSHIPS TO ACQUIRE BASIC NUMBER FACTS

2.3a Fractions: Use 0, 1/2, and 1 or 0, 0.5, and 1, as benchmarks and place additional fractions and decimals on a number line (e.g., 1/3, 3/4, 0.7, 0.4).

Whiteboard Tools

Online decimal line. Good demo tool

Fraction Finder

Fraction Pointer

Online manipulatives.  While student makes graphic representation of fractions, computer shows them on a number line

 

 

2.3b Fractions: Create physical and pictorial models of equivalent and nonequivalent fractional parts to be compared, added or subtracted (e.g., egg cartons, fraction strips, circles, and squares).

Fraction Finder

Fraction Pointer

Online manipulatives.  While student makes graphic representation of fractions, computer shows them on a number line

Tony’s Fraction Pizza Shop

Online game which requires students to make pizzas with different portions of ingredients

Shade It

Shade the figure to match the fraction

Visual Fractions

Online quiz over many aspects of fractions; uses visuals

Equivalent Fraction Finder

Equivalent Fraction Pointer

Online manipulatives.  While student makes graphic representation of fractions, computer shows them on a number line