Mathematics 5 curriculum guide 2015 I table of contents acknowledgements

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MATHEMATICS 5 CURRICULUM GUIDE 2015
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Resources/Notes
PATTERNS IN MATHEMATICS
Authorized Resource
General Outcome: Use Patterns to Describe the World and to Solve Problems
Performance 
• 
Ask students to use cubes or square tiles to copy and extend these 
shapes to the fifth shape in the pattern. They could explain in words 
how the pattern grows. Ask them to predict what the seventh shape 
would look like.
(5PR1.1, 5PR1.2, 5PR1.3)
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Students could fold a piece of paper to create two sections. When 
they fold the same piece of paper again, the result is four sections. 
Ask students to investigate the number of sections they would get 
with three folds and with four folds. Ask them to predict the number 
of sections with five folds. Students should check their predictions 
and explain how they could predict the number of sections for eight 
folds. This provides a good example of why predicting is important. 
Sometimes it is not realistic to extend models.
(5PR1.2, 5PR1.3, 5PR1.4)
• 
Provide students with the first two elements in a pattern and ask 
them to extend the pattern. Students could work in pairs to create as 
many different patterns as they can, writing the pattern rule for each. 
Some possible beginnings are:
4, 8…..
100, 94, ……
(5PR1.1, 5PR1.2, 5PR1.3)
Lesson 2: Extending Increasing 
Patterns
TR: pp. 18-22
SB: pp. 8-11
Note
This lesson is closely linked to 
Lesson Three which focuses on 
decreasing patterns. They could be 
treated together.
Lesson 3: Extending Decreasing 
Patterns
TR: pp. 23-26
SB: pp. 12-14
Paper and Pencil
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Ask students to use their knowledge of patterns to answer the 
following:
Sharon delivers pizza. Each day, she earns $20.
(i) How much will she earn at the end of one day?
(ii) How much will she earn at the end of two days?
(iii) How much will she earn at the end of one week?
(iv) How many days will it take Sharon to earn $240?
Ask students to explain how they solved the problems.
(5PR1.1, 5PR1.3)
Math Focus 5

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