Patterning and Algebra – Learning Goals Week By Week

Grades 1 – 3

Grade 1 / Grade 2 / Grade 3
Overall Expectation / Identify, describe, extend and create repeating patterns
LG: I will learn about repeating patterns that use shapes, attributes and numbers / Identify, describe, extend and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns
LG: -I will learn that there are many different types of patterns;
- I will identify, describe and create different patterns / Describe, extend and create a variety of numeric patterns and geometric patterns
LG: - I will learn what an attribute is;
- I will describe, make and extend patterns using numbers, shapes and attributes
Week One / Specific Expectations: 1 & 4
LG: I will…
- learn what attributes are;
- identify what a pattern rule is / Specific Expectations: 6
LG: I will…
- learn how to create a repeating attribute using at least two attributes / Specific Expectations: 1 & 6
LG: I will…
- learn what attributes are and how to make a pattern using a least two of them;
- know and describe why something is or is not a pattern
Week Two / Specific Expectations: 5
LG: I will…
- create repeating patterns involving on attribute / Specific Expectations: 4 & 5
LG: I will…
- create growing or shrinking patterns;
- show growing and shrinking patterns in different ways / Specific Expectations: 3 & 4
LG: I will…
- extend different types of patterns;
- create number patterns using words;
- use addition or subtraction to make patterns
Week Three / Specific Expectations: 2 & 3
LG: I will…
- describe what number patters I see in a hundreds chart;
- identify repeating number patterns;
- extend repeating number patterns / Specific Expectations: 1 & 2
LG: I will…
- identify, describe, and create (using tools) growing and shrinking patterns that happen when I add;
- use a calculator to help me show patterns;
- learn what changes need to be made in order to identify something as a pattern / Specific Expectations 2 & 5
LG: I will…
- use tools to identify and describe number patterns that increase or decrease
Week Four / Specific Expectations: 6
LG: I will…
- show a repeating pattern in different ways / Specific Expectations: 5
LG: I will…
- Identify patterns found in the world around me; / Overall Expectation:
LG: I will…
- describe, make and extend patterns using numbers, shapes and attributes


Patterning and Algebra – Learning Goals Week By Week

Grades 4-6

Grade 4 / Grade 5 / Grade 6
Overall Expectation / Describe, extend and create a variety of numeric and geometric patterns, make predictions related to the patterns, and investigate repeating patterns involving reflections
LG: I will talk about, extend and create different types of patterns using numbers and geometric shapes / Determine, through investigation using a table of values, relationships in growing and shrinking patterns, and investigate repeating patterns involving translations
LG: I will use a table of values to look for relationships in growing and shrinking patterns
- I will create repeating patters using translations / Describe and represent relationships in growing and shrinking patterns (where the terms are whole numbers), and investigate repeating patterns involving rotations
LG: I will talk about and show relationships in patterns;
- I will create repeating patterns using translations
Week One / Specific Expectation: 1
LG: I will…
- extend, describe, and make different types of number patterns (repeating, growing and shrinking) / Specific Expectation: 1& 5
LG: I will…
- use different tools to create, identify, and extend patterns using numbers and geometric shapes
- extend and create repeating patterns that happen from reflections / Specific Expectation: 1
LG: I will…
- use materials or drawings to identify geometric patterns and then represent them in numbers
Week Two / Specific Expectation: 2
LG: I will…
- use a table of values to organize terms in a growing or shrinking pattern
- learn what term number and term mean and use them in my work / Specific Expectations: 2 & 3
LG: I will…
- build a model to represent a number pattern that is found in a table of values;
- use addition and subtraction to generate a pattern and put it in a table of values;
- create patterns from a given sequence or the pattern rule in words / Specific Expectations: 2 & 3
LG: I will…
- make tables of values for growing patterns where the pattern rule is given in words;
- plot the ordered pairs from a table of values on a graph;
- determine what the term number of a given term is that is represented in different ways
Week Three / Specific Expectation: 5
LG: I will…
- extend and create repeating patterns that happen from reflections / Specific Expectations: 3 & 4
LG: I will…
- learn what a constant is;
- use multiplication and division by a constant to identify a pattern rule and make a table of values / Specific Expectations: 4 & 5
LG: I will…
- describe pattern rules using words that happen by adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing a constant;
- determine a term when given its term number
Week Four / Specific Expectations: 3 & 4
LG: I will…
- make predictions about geometric and numeric patterns;
- use addition, subtraction and multiplication to create a number pattern that is written in words / Specific Expectations: 4
LG: I will…
- make predictions about, and related to, growing and shrinking patterns / Specific Expectations: 6
LG: I will…
- extend and create repeating patterns that happen from rotations


Patterning and Algebra – Learning Goals Week By Week

Grades 7 & 8

Grade 7 / Grade 8
Overall Expectation / Represent linear growing patterns(where the terms are whole numbers) using concrete materials, graphs, and algebraic expressions
LG: I will show linear growing patterns in a variety of ways. / Represent linear growing patterns (where the terms are whole numbers) using graphs, algebraic expressions, and equations
LG: I will show linear growing patterns using graphs, algebraic expressions and equations.
Week One / Specific Expectation: 1
LG: I will…
- use different tools and strategies to represent linear growing patterns / Specific Expectation: 2
LG: I will…
- use a variety of tools to represent linear patterns graphically
Week Two / Specific Expectation: 2
LG: I will…
- use materials to help me make predictions about linear growing patterns / Specific Expectation: 1
LG: I will…
- use concrete materials to represent the general term of an algebraic expression;
- use concrete materials to represent the general term of a linear pattern using one or more expressions
Week Three / Specific Expectation: 3
LG: I will…
- learn about what a constant and variable are;
- represent the general terms of a linear growing pattern using algebraic expressions using one operation / Specific Expectation: 1
LG: I will…
- use concrete materials to represent the general term of an algebraic expression;
- use concrete materials to represent the general term of a linear pattern using one or more expressions
Week Four / Specific Expectation: 4
LG: I will…
- compare pattern rules using constants and adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing to get the next terms;
- use pattern rules that use the term number to describe the general term. / Specific Expectation: 3
LG: I will…
- use graphs and algebraic equations to help me find a term when I know the term number.