Patterns and Algebra Interactive Math Unit | Paper | Grade 5 Grade 6

Stop searching for your patterns and relations 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 unit is already done for you!

Get this unit and all our other Grade 5/6 units 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, 1 374 492 is used instead of 1,374,492.
• Canadian spellings.

Topics addressed 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
• 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 5 ©2022
• Alberta Mathematics Curriculum Grade 6 ©2022
• British Columbia Mathematics Curricular Competencies Grade 5
• British Columbia Mathematics Curricular Competencies Grade 6
• Saskatchewan Mathematics Curriculum Grade 5 P5.1, P5.2
• Saskatchewan Mathematics Curriculum Grade 6 P6.1, P6.2, P6.3

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 a different level?

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

Where do you teach?

• Alberta Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)
• Alberta Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)
• British Columbia Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)
• British Columbia Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)
• Saskatchewan Patterns and Algebra Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)
• Saskatchewan Full Year Worksheet Bundle Grade 6  (coming soon)

Ninja Note: This resource requires printing for students to use.

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