Pattern Blocks

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Pattern Blocks

• By Christina Joykutty

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Pattern Blocks

• Helps with fractions (, -, X, )
• Helps visual and spatial learners
• Tessellations-repeating patterns with no gaps
• Helps with angles

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Types of Pattern Blocks

• Hexagon Parallelogram
• Triangle Trapezoid
• Rhombus Square

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Website

• Pattern blocks online
• http//www.arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.s
  html
• Use Website to find out how many shapes it takes
  to be in the hexagon

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How many to make a hexagon?

• 2 Trapezoids
• Fraction ½
• 6 Triangles
• Fraction 1/6
• 3 Parallelograms
• Fraction 1/3

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Fraction ( -) Problems
1/6 1/2 2/3
1 - 1/6 - 1/3 1/2
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Fraction (x ) problems
2 x 1/3 2/3
a b is how many of b are in a? so 1/2 1/6
how many triangles are in a trapezoid

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Pattern Block Relationships and Information

• http//mason.gmu.edu/mmankus/Handson/pbinfo.htm

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Other Pattern Blocks Websites

• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/math/resource/manips/pat
  tern.pdf
• http//studentweb.fontbonne.edu/cdavis/webbits/ls
  bwk01/webquest/
• Video on Pattern Blocks
• Mathematics with manipulatives videorecording
  pattern blocks / produced by Focal Point
  Productions director/writer, Deborah Shames
  developed by Marilyn Burns.