Patterns and Algebra Interactive Math Unit | Paper | Grade 4 Grade 5

Stop searching for your patterns lessons. Everything you need to teach, practice, and assess patterns and expressions with variables is included in this print-and-use unit. Your planning for your patterns and relations unit is already done for you! 

Get this unit in our Year Long Math Interactive Notebook Unit Bundle!

This all-inclusive resource includes:

• a complete lesson on how to set up, use, and assess interactive math notebooks. These are hands-on paper notebooks that your students can use all year long.
• complete lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.
• student templates (with differentiated options).
• student worksheets (with various levels of difficulty so you can differentiate).
• photographs of student examples.
• activities to reinforce the concepts.
• answer keys.
• Build Your Own Unit Test: Several pages with answer keys are included with opportunities to mix and match to differentiate for all of your individual students.
• SI Notation for Canadian teachers. Spaces are used between place values instead of commas. For example, 34 492 is used instead of 34,492.

Topics included in this unit:

• Pictorial and concrete patterns (terms, core, repeating, increasing, decreasing, finite, infinite)
• Number patterns: sequences: arithmetic, geometric, triangle, square, Fibonacci
• Number patterns: charts, tables, and coordinate planes
• Sorting numbers by attributes
• Writing expressions with variables
• Writing expressions from descriptions or story problems
• Preservation of equality
• Solving for an unknown in one or two operation equations

 This resource aligns with:

• Alberta Mathematics Curriculum Grade 4 ©2022
• Alberta Mathematics Curriculum Grade 5 ©2022
• British Columbia Mathematics Curricular Competencies Grade 4
• British Columbia Mathematics Curricular Competencies Grade 5
• Saskatchewan Mathematics Curriculum Grade 4 P4.1, P4.2
• Saskatchewan Mathematics Curriculum Grade 5 P5.1, P5.2

 This resource supports:

• any Canadian Grade 3-6 math class.
• math classes in the Yukon and Northwest Territories (though it recommended you use the province’s curriculum your territory recommends).

Looking for another level?

• Patterns and Algebra Interactive Notebook Grade 3
• Patterns and Algebra Math Unit Grade 4 (coming soon)
• Patterns and Algebra Math Unit Grade 5 (coming soon)
• Patterns and Relations Interactive Notebook Grades 5/6
  
• Patterns and Algebra Math Unit Grade 6 (coming soon)

We also have support materials:

• Alberta Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• Alberta Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• British Columbia Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• British Columbia Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• Saskatchewan Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• Saskatchewan Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 4 (coming soon!)
• Alberta Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)
• Alberta Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)
• British Columbia Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)
• British Columbia Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)
• Saskatchewan Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)
• Saskatchewan Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 5 (coming soon!)

Ninja Note: This file is a PDF and requires printing for students to use.

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