A variety of pattern blocks and pattern cards in plastic, foam and wooden sets. Great for patterning, sequencing and shape recognition. An excellent open ended tool to build patterns, create and solve critical thinking problems and explore geometric shapescreate and solve critical thinking problems, and explore geometric shapes.
Students can build compound shapes and explore symmetry. E-mail Address:. Conditions apply. To browse and purchase our services contact us on the form below and one of our friendly and helpful sales team will be happy to assist and arrange a visit. Meanwhile please don't hesitate to contact us via email. You will receive exclusive offers, news and advice direct to your inbox now that you have signed up. Meanwhile please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at sales teaching.
Internet Explorer is no longer a supported browser by Modern Teachings Aids. A set of Pattern Blocks consists of blocks in 6 geometric, color-coded shapes: green triangles, orange squares, blue parallelograms, tan rhombuses, red trapezoids, and yellow hexagons. The relationships among the side measures and the angle measures make it very easy to fit the blocks together to make tiling patterns that completely cover a flat surface.
The blocks are designed so that all the sides of the shapes are 1 inch except the longer side of the trapezoid, which is 2 inches, or twice as long as the other sides. These features of Pattern Blocks encourage investigation of relationships among the shapes.
One special aspect of the shapes is that the yellow block can be covered exactly by putting together 2 red blocks, or 3 blue blocks, or 6 green blocks. This is a natural lead-in to the consideration of how fractional parts relate to a whole - the yellow block. Within this small world of fractions, students can develop hands-on familiarity and intuition about comparing fractions, finding equivalent fractions, and changing improper fractions to mixed numbers.
They can also model addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication of fractions. Pattern Blocks provide a visual image which is essential for real understanding of fraction algorithms. If they forget the procedure, they are at a total loss. Yet students who have many presymbolic experiences solving problems such as "Find how many red blocks fit over 3 yellows and a red," "Find half of the blue block," or "Find how many blue blocks cover 4 yellow blocks" will have a solid intuitive foundation to build these skills on and to fall back on if memory fails them.
Students do need ample time to experiment freely with Pattern Blocks before they begin more serious investigations. Most students can begin without additional direction, but some may need suggestions. Asking students to find the different shapes, sizes, and colors of Pattern Blocks, or asking them to cover their desktops with the blocks or to find which blocks can be used to build straight roads, might be good for starters.
As students begin to work with Pattern Blocks, they use them primarily to explore spatial relations. Young students have an initial tendency to work with others and to copy one another's designs.
Yet even duplicating another's pattern with blocks can expand a student's experience and ability to recognize similarities and differences, and it can also provide a context for developing language related to geometric ideas.
Throughout their investigations, students should be encouraged to talk about their constructions. Expressing their thoughts out loud helps students clarify and extend their thinking. Pattern Blocks help students explore many mathematical topics, including congruence, similarity, symmetry, area, perimeter, patterns, functions, fractions, and graphing. The following are just a few of the possibilities:.
The use of Pattern Blocks provides a perfect opportunity for authentic assessment. Watching students work with the blocks gives you a sense of how they approach a mathematical problem. Their thinking can be "seen" through their positioning of the Pattern Blocks. When a class breaks up into small working groups, you are able to circulate, listen, and raise questions, all the while focusing on how individual students are thinking.
The challenges that students encounter when working with Pattern Blocks often elicit unexpected abilities from students whose performance in more symbolic, number-oriented tasks may be weak.
On the other hand, some students with good memories for numerical relationships may have difficulty with spatial challenges and can more readily learn from freely exploring with Pattern Blocks. By observing students' free exploration, you can get a sense of individual learning styles. Having students describe their creations and share their strategies and thinking with the whole class gives you another opportunity for observational assessment.
As a next step, you may want to gather students' recorded work or invite them to choose pieces to add to their math portfolios. Challenge students and maximize the use of Pattern Blocks with Math Tasks!
All students, regardless of grade level, need time to become familiar with the Pattern Blocks before being asked to focus on specific problems. This exploration time helps students discover relationships among the blocks. They learn that 2 red trapezoids can be arranged to make a yellow hexagon, for example, or that 2 green triangles are equivalent in area to a blue parallelogram.
Along with unstructured free exploration, it is possible to provide structure for student's initial explorations. Pattern Blocks are great for teaching ratio and proportion at this grade level. Please verify you are not a bot:. Send Cancel. Select a Store. Choose a Location. Add to Shopping List.
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