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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.OA.C.5Unit 12: Number & shape patterns

Shape patterns

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🎯 Objective: Students extend shape patterns and find the rule.

Lesson outline

  1. Build a growing pattern of squares.
  2. Predict the 10th term.
  3. Share strategies.
  4. Exit: draw the next term.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4.OA.C.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Generate patterns that follow a rule
  • Describe features of a pattern that are not in the rule

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Number & shape patterns”

  1. Number patterns
  2. Shape patterns
  3. Input-output tables

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