Standard 13: Patterns and Relationships
In grades K-4, the curriculum should include the study of patterns and
relationships so that students can:
Recognize, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of patterns
Benchmarks 9B (The Mathematical World: Symbolic Relationships)
Grades K-2, page 217
Similar patterns may show up in many places in nature and in the things
people make.
Benchmarks 11C (Common Themes: Constancy and Change)
Grades K-2, page 272
Things change in some ways and stay the same in some ways.
Benchmarks 4B (The Physical Setting: The Earth)
Grades K-2, page 67
Some events in nature have a repeating pattern. The weather changes
some from day to day, but things such as temperature and rain (or snow)
tend to be high, low, or medium in the same months every year.
Represent and describe mathematical relationships
Benchmarks 9B (The Mathematical World: Symbolic Relationships)
Grades K-2, page 217
Sometimes changing something causes changes in something else. In some
situations, changing the same thing in the same way has the same result.
Benchmarks 9B (The Mathematical World: Symbolic Relationships)
Grades 3-5, page 218
Tables and graphs can show how values of one quantity are related to
values of another.
Explore the use of variables and open sentences to express relationships
Benchmarks 9B (The Mathematical World: Symbolic Relationships)
Grades 3-5, page 218
Mathematical statements using symbols may be true only when the symbols
are replaced by certain numbers.
