Our new math work place this week is Pattern Block Designs. In this activity students copy pattern block designs from printed cards, first with real blocks, and then with pattern block stickers. This moves us from creating designs to reproducing them. We are able to move from the 2-dimensional flat card to 3-dimensional blocks, and then back to 2-dimensional recordings with stickers. Moving back and forth between pictures and objects is part of learning to create representations, a skill viewed as increasingly important in the world of math education. While completing this activity we are practicing the following skills:
- Recognizing and naming shapes
- Counting
- Taking shapes apart and fitting them back together
- Exploring relationships between various shapes
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