Grade 04 Mathematics - EC: M04.B-O.3.1.1

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
Questions/activities that grow in complexity
Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content

M04.B-O.3.1.1 M04.B-O.3.1.1

Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. Example 1: Given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms alternate between odd and even numbers. Example 2: Given the rule “increase the number of sides by 1” and starting with a triangle, observe that the tops of the shapes alternate between a side and a vertex.

Activities

What would be the next three shapes in the pattern

Starting with the number 7 write the first five numbers in the pattern using the rule subtract 2 multiply by 3.

Jeff uses a rule to create a number pattern; the pattern starts with the number 100 and then you subtract 3. Write the first 6 numbers in Jeff’s pattern, and write a sentence that describes the numbers in the pattern.

A geometric pattern starts with a shape that has 8 sides and the rules states that you need to remove 2 sides each time. Draw the first 3 shapes in the patterns.

Your teacher, Mrs. Brown, is grading papers and has 5 done at the end of the day on Monday. If she can grade 7 more papers each night Tuesday through Saturday, how many papers will she have corrected by the end of the week? Show your work.

Draw the next shape in the pattern, and explain what the rule is on how you found your answer.

Answer Key/Rubric

7 , 5, 15 ,13, 39

The first six numbers in the pattern are 100, 97, 94, 91, 88, and 85. One possible sentence that you could use to describe the numbers is …..The numbers start with and even number than they alternate odd and even in the pattern.

Mrs. Brown will have 40 papers graded by the end of the week. Student work might include but is not limited to,

List the number of papers she is grading by the days of the week.
Monday 5

Tuesday 5+7 =12

Wednesday 12 + 7 = 19

Thursday 19 + 7 =26

Friday 26 + 7 = 33

Saturday 33 + 7 = 40

Add 7 papers to the total from the previous night

The next shape in the pattern is …

The rule for drawing the next shape in this pattern is to add one block to the vertical column, and add two blocks to the horizontal row.