Unit 2: Algebraic Connections (includes coordinate grids)
Instructional Plan
Lesson
# of Days
Day 1
Mathland
pp. 32-33
Days 2 – 3
MathLand
pp. 34-35
Day 4
36-37
Day 5-6
GWM 19.4
Activities
Teaching Notes
Exploring patterns in growing shapes
Setting out: Predicting patterns to understand mathematical
relationships
Homework: Algebra Puzzles p. 113 Construction Count A
Growing Shapes
Along the Way: Follow MathLand Unit
Homework: Algebra puzzles pp. 114
Growing Shapes
Looking Back: Follow MathLand unit
Homework: Mosaic Design Student Letter MathLand
Exploring Patterns of Squares and Rectangles
Discussion book 76: See Teaching the lesson
Creating a Pattern of Squares: Individual Activity
Assessing the Lesson 19.4
Homework: Algebraic puzzles pp. 116
Pattern: A regular predictable design or sequence
Algebra: the branch of mathematics that uses symbols to
express patterns and relationships between numbers
Sequence: numbers arranged usually according to some
pattern
SIDE TRIP pp. 35 for extension activity
Ongoing Project/Small Group Activity:
Hexagon Tilings pp. 37
*Algebraic puzzles resource: GroundworksAlgebra Puzzle
and Problems grade 5 Greenes/Findell
Creative Publications 1998
Day 7
19.5
Exploring patterns:
Investigation 19.5 Creating sequences of pattern blocks
BLM 19.2
Assessing the lesson 19.5
Lesson
# of Days
Day 8-9
GWM 19.1
Activities
Teaching Notes
Working with Coordinates D.B. 73 Coordinate grid directions
Student book p.244
Homework: Student book 243
Assessing the lesson 19.1
Horizontal (left or right)
Vertical (up or down)
Cooridnate grid: a system for locating points in a plane by
using ordered pairs of numbers
Day 10
GWM 19.2
Day 11-12
GWM 19.3
Day 13-15
MathLand
pp.295-297,
301
DAY 15
ASSESSMENT
Graphing Patterns on a Grid: Describe location and movement
on coordinate grid
D.B. 74 (toothpick patterns on a grid)
Student book pp.246 Practice
Homework: pp. 247
Using a graph to Generalize a Rule
Reading a line graph and redrawing a line graph D.B. pp. 75
B.L.M. 19.2
Assessing the lesson
Homework: pp. 248
Day 13: Grid Tic-Tac Toe
Day 14: Hidden Shapes/Review
Day 15: District Assessment Patterns/Coordinate Grid
Ordered pair: A set of two numbers that identify a point on
a coordinate grid. The first number corresponds to a point
on the horizontal (x) axis and the second number
corresponds to a point on the vertical (y) axis)
Origin: the point at which the x-axis and the y-axis meet on
a coordinate grid