Materials Pattern Blocks, and colored pencils
1. Locate and identify the different pieces in a set of pattern blocks. Make a
list of the different blocks.
2. Use the pattern blocks to complete the fol lowing tasks .
How many triangles cover a trapezoid?
How many triangles cover a blue rhombus?
How many blue rhombi cover a hexagon?
How many trapezoids cover a hexagon?
How many triangles cover a hexagon?
3. Use the pattern blocks and the above information to answer the following
questions.
What part of a trapezoid is a triangle?
What part of a blue rhombus is a triangle?
What part of a hexagon is a triangle?
What part of a hexagon is a blue rhombus?
What part of a trapezoid is a blue rhombus?
What part of a hexagon is a trapezoid?
4. Use the pattern blocks to complete the following tasks. Record your solutions
by shading the
appropriate areas using colored pencils.
Cover the region with one red block and three green blocks.
Write the equivalent fractions modeled.
Cover the region with two red and three
blue blocks. Write the equivalent fractions
modeled.
Cover the region with one yellow and
six green blocks. Write the equivalent
fractions modeled .
5. Use pattern blocks to cover. Record your solutions by
shading the appropriate areas using colored
pencils.
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One-half |
One-third |
Two-thirds |
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One-sixth |
Four-sixths |
Two-halves |
6. Use pattern blocks to solve the following tasks. Record
and color your solutions. Drawings do not need
to be to scale. Each block must touch a complete side of another block. Flips
and turns of one figure are
considered as the same figure.
If the square is one -fourth, make a whole. (There should be five solutions.)
If the triangle is one-fourth, make a whole. How many solutions did you find?
If the blue rhombus is one-fourth, make a whole. How many solutions did you
find?
7. Using pattern blocks, make the shape on the left. Make the same shape beside
it using four blocks. By
comparing the two shapes , de termine how the tan rhombus and the square are
related.
8. Solve each of the puzzles using pattern blocks. Record
and color each solution. Drawings do not need
to be to scale.
Puzzle 1: Build a triangle that is one-third green and two-thirds red.
Puzzle 2: Build a triangle that is two-thirds red, one-ninth green, and
two-ninths blue.
Puzzle 3: Build a paralle logram that is three -fourths blue and one-fourth green.
