UnderstandingbyDesignTechnologyTemplate

MakingSenseofPatternsAlgebra1

Content

Technology

Stage1

DesiredResults

Standards
(Content)
:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSFBF.A.1.
Writeafunctionthatdescribesarelationship
betweentwoquantities.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSFBF.A.2.
Writearithmeticandgeometricsequencesboth
recursivelyandwithanexplicitformula,usethem
tomodelsituations,andtranslatebetweenthe
twoforms.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4
ModelwithMathematics.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7
Lookforandmakeuseofstructure.

ISTETechnologyStudent
Standard(s):
1.Creativityandinnovation
Studentsdemonstratecreativethinking,construct
knowledge,anddevelopinnovativeproductsand
processesusingtechnology.
b.Createoriginalworksasameansof
personalorgroupexpression
2.Communicationandcollaboration
Studentsusedigitalmediaandenvironmentsto
communicateandworkcollaboratively,including
atadistance,tosupportindividuallearningand
contributetothelearningofothers.
b.Communicateinformationandideas
effectivelytomultipleaudiencesusinga
varietyofmediaandformats

NETSTechnologyTeacher
Standard(s):
1.Facilitateandinspirestudentlearning
andcreativity
Teachersusetheirknowledgeofsubjectmatter,
teachingandlearning,andtechnologyto
facilitate
experiencesthatadvancestudentlearning,
creativity,andinnovationinbothfacetoface
andvirtualenvironments.
a.Promote,support,andmodelcreativeand
innovativethinkingandinventiveness
c.Promotestudentreflectionusing
collaborativetoolstorevealandclarify
studentsconceptualunderstandingand
thinking,planning,andcreativeprocesses

Understandings
(Content)
:

Understandings
(Technology)
:

Studentswillunderstand...
Patternsandrelationshipscanbe
representedinvariousways.
Mathematicalmodelsarepowerfultoolswe
canusetorepresentrelationships.

Studentswillunderstand...
Atoolisonlyasgoodasthepersonusingit.
Technologyisatoolthatcanbeusedfor
collecting,organizing,creating,and
presentinginformation.

Studentswillknow...
Vocabularyterms:arithmeticsequence,
geometricsequence,recursiverule,and
explicitrule
Patternsandrelationshipscanbe
representednumerically,graphically,
symbolically,andverbally.

Studentswillknow
Technologyisapowerfultoolforsharing
whattheyhavelearnedwiththeirclassmates
andtheworld.
Howtouseeachwebtool.

Studentswillbeableto...
Useinductivereasoningforrecognizing
numberpatternscalledsequences
Identifyandcreatearithmeticsequences.
Identifyandcreategeometricsequences.
Writearecursiveruleforbotharithmeticand
geometricsequences.
Writeanexplicitruleforbotharithmeticand
geometricsequences.
Modeldatausingequations,tables,and
graphs.

Studentswillbeableto
Use
GoogleDrawings
tocreateanimage
madeoutofshapes.
Inputequationsandtablesintoanonline
graphingcalculator(
www.desmos.com
)to
modelpatternsinthecoordinateplane.
Createaproducttodisplaywhattheyhave
learnedaboutpatternsusing
GlogsterEDU
,
Jing
,or
WeVideo
.

EssentialQuestions
(Content)
:

EssentialQuestions
(Technology)
:

Howcanwefindandanalyzetherelationship
amongpatterns?
Howcanwebestrepresentandverify

mathematicalrelationships?

HowcanIusetechnologyasatooltoshow
whatI'velearned?
HowcanIusedigitaltoolstoenhance
creativityandknowledge?

Stage2
PerformanceTask(s)
(Content)
:

AssessmentEvidence
PerformanceTask(s)
(Technology)
:

Studentswillidentifyifthepatternthey
createdisarithmeticorgeometricandexplain

whythatistrue.

Studentswillcreatetheirownpatternusing
GoogleDrawings
.

Studentswillrepresentthepatternthey
createdusingequations,atable,anda
graph.

OtherEvidence
(Content)
:

OtherEvidence
(Technology)
:

Thestudentswillmodeldatausingequations,
tables,andgraphs.
Thestudentswillobservethataquantity
increasingexponentiallyeventuallyexceedsa
quantityincreasinglinearly.

Studentswillcreateaproductshowingthe
patterntheycreatedalongwithan
explanationofthepatternverbally(or
written),asanequation(bothrecursiveand
explicit),asatable,andagraph.Students
mayuse
GlogsterEDU
,
Jing
,or
WeVideo
.

Studentswilluseanonlinegraphing
calculator(
www.desmos.com
)tomodel
patternsinthecoordinateplane.

Stage3

LearningPlan

LearningActivities
(Content)
:

LearningActivities
(Technology)
:

The
PixelPattern
activitywillbeusedto
introducestudentstoarithmeticsequences.
Itisa3ActLessoncreatedbyDanMeyer.
Studentswillworkonthisindependentlyat
firstandtheninsmallgroups.
Next,studentswillworkinsmallgroupson
the
PracticeafterthePixelPatternActivity
problemstoclaritytheirunderstandingof
arithmetic(orlinear)pattern.Theteacherwill
providesupportandinstructionasneededin
smallgroupsortothewholeclass.
The
DominoSkyscraper
activitywillbeused
tointroducestudentstogeometric
sequences.Itisa3ActLessoncreatedby
DanMeyer.Studentswillworkonthis
independentlyatfirstandtheninsmall
groups.
Followupguidedinstructionon
Arithmetic
andGeometricSequences
.Studentswill
summarizewhattheyhavelearnedaboutthe
twosequencesbeforemovingintothe
performancetask.

Studentswillpracticefindingpatternsand
writingequationsusing
www.visualpatterns.org
.(Studentswillhave
accesstointerlockingcubesorcounting
blockstocreatethepatternstheyseeonthe
screen.)
Studentswillusethistemplate
Student
eTool
(createdinDesmos)toplotpatterns
onthecoordinateplaneusingbothtablesand
equations.