Explore creating and using algorithms with these interactive Year 6 teaching slides, designed to help students generate number patterns, identify rules and explain emerging mathematical patterns.
Using Algorithms to Generate and Explore Number Patterns
Support students’ understanding of using algorithms with this engaging set of interactive teaching slides. Students investigate how a sequence of steps and decisions can be used to generate sets of numbers, identify patterns and explain the relationships they discover.Throughout the lesson, students create and analyse number sequences using different rules and operations, compare additive and multiplicative patterns, and explore input-output relationships. The activities encourage mathematical reasoning as students identify, interpret and explain emerging patterns.
Ways to Use These Number Patterns Year 6 Slides
- Whole-Class Investigation – Model algorithms and generate number sequences together while discussing emerging patterns.
- Function Machine Challenges – Have students apply input-output rules and compare additive and multiplicative relationships.
- Pattern Exploration Tasks – Encourage students to create their own algorithms and explain the patterns they generate.
Download These Using Algorithms Teaching Slides
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Alyssa Peterson, a TeachStarter collaborator, contributed to this resource.
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