Rheta N. Rubenstein
Article describes how students can be guided to find an explicit rule for a pattern from a recursive rule. Activity is provided with examples.
Catherine M. Castellan
How the human body can be used to make sense of various number patterns and relationships.
Darin Beigie
An activity using spreadsheets and programmable calculators to investigate limiting behavior in number patterns.
Glenn T. Moran
Article outlines a lesson on the Fibonacci and Lucas sequences, giving opportunity for computation practice, mental mathematics, and proof; for algebra students, the article discusses an extension for solving simultaneous equations.
Albert B. Bennett Jr. and L. Ted Nelson
Using base-ten pieces to illustrate divisibility tests with single-digit divisors. Several visual aids are provided.
Since 1999, the U.S. Mint has been giving pocket change a new look, with the advent of its 50 State Quarters program. Those new shiny
quarters can also be taken into the classroom in the form of lesson plans.
Diane Azim
Two teaching methods and two student-created methods for conceptualizing multiplication with rational numbers.