Standard 3: Recognize numerical patterns, including patterns that follow a given rule.

This tutorial will help you to brush up on your multiplication, division and factoring skills with this exciting game. 

Type: Educational Game

This fun and engaging game will test your knowledge of whole numbers as prime or composite.  As you shoot the asteroids with a particular factor, the asteroids will break down by that chosen factor.  Keep shooting the correct factors to totally eliminate the asteroids.  But be careful, shooting the wrong factor has consequences!

Type: Educational Game

Students are asked to find all the factor pairs for each of four given numbers.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find all the factor pairs of a given number and identify the number as a multiple of the factors.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to generate a sequence of numbers based on a given rule and then to identify features of the pattern that are not explicit.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students examine triangular numbers through a given dot pattern.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students generate a number pattern based on a given rule and explain the pattern found.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given two rules and are asked to generate patterns.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to determine whether each of four given numbers is prime or composite and justify their choices.

Type: Formative Assessment

The students will determine divisibility rules by looking for a pattern in multiples of a number. They will then utilize divisibility rules to find factors thereby strengthening this ability. The students will practice their factoring skills through the Four in a Row game. This lesson could be an introduction to divisibility rules but not findng factors.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will start out using manipulatives to create arrays which will be used to find factor pairs. Students will use a T-Chart to determine the factor pairs of numbers. Students will then use their T-Charts to determine if a number is prime or composite.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will identify prime and composite numbers through arrays. The lesson begins with a fun situational story.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson provides practice in learning factors of numbers. Students will play a factor game then participate in a thought-provoking task. It is helpful if students know what a prime number is, but it is not essential.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will be using rectangles to find prime and composite numbers.  Students will draw different rectangles for the area of a given set of numbers.  They will determine the factor pairs for each number in the given set and use them to discover the meaning of prime and composite numbers.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a foundation lesson in which the students will visually see the relationship between factors and products. As a result of this hands-on lesson and guided discussion, they will learn to identify the factors of a given number.

Type: Lesson Plan

The students will use prior knowledge of the area formula to design a garden with a  area. Students will compare gardens and note that rectangles with the same area could have different dimensions.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will apply multiplication, division and factor knowledge to word problems.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use manipulatives to build, extend, and describe increasing patterns from a rule.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is an introductory lesson addressing factors for number 1-20. Factoring will lead students to discover differences and similarities between prime and composite numbers. Students will also discuss five claims about factors, prime, and composite numbers and create support from examples and non-examples to determine whether these claims are valid or invalid.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will use a 100s chart to sort out the prime numbers under 100 using the Sieve of Eratosthenes method. 

Type: Lesson Plan

Students generate and describe a numerical pattern using the multiplication and subtraction of fractions.

Type: Lesson Plan

This activity provides an introduction to composite numbers and prime numbers through factorization.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will determine the validity of the statement, "All rectangles with the same area will have the same perimeter" through two investigations.

Type: Lesson Plan

Join Pete as he explores patterns within patterns with feisty Wubbles and Dipples in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Discover what makes prime and composite numbers unique thanks to an interesting backyard problem in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Watch as the Wubbles double to show you how a mathematical pattern can be made.

Download the CPALMS Perspectives video student note taking guide.

Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

The purpose of this task is to help students gain a better understanding of patterns. This task is meant to be used in an instructional setting.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The goal of this task is to work on finding multiples of some whole numbers on a multiplication grid. After shading in the multiples of 2, 3, and 4 on the table, students will see a key difference.  The focus can be on identifying patterns or this can be an introduction or review of prime and composite numbers.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This Khan Academy tutorial video reviews how to determine if a number is prime or composite.

Type: Tutorial