Faculty Articles
Investigating Numeric Relationships Using an Interactive Tool Covering Number Sense Concepts for the Middle Grades
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2010
Keywords
number sense, number patterns and relationships, puzzles, games, computer programs, number arrangements, multiples, factors, ratios of comparative numbers, investigation, number squares, number games
Publication Title
Creative Education
Volume
2010
Issue/No.
2
Abstract
This article investigates intriguing number patterns utilizing an emerging technology called the Square Tool. Middle School math teachers will find the Square Tool useful in making connections and bridging the gap from the concrete to the abstract. Pattern recognition helps students discover mathematical concepts. With the development of puzzles, games, and computer programs, students learn and practice the skills that are created in the mathematics classrooms. By studying patterns that exist within different number arrangements, consistencies are observed among them. Middle School students will investigate various mathematics relationships found in numbered squares including multiples, factors, ratios of comparative numbers, and other mathematical concepts.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2010.12018
NSUWorks Citation
Su, Angie; Marinas, Carol A.; and Furner, Joseph M., "Investigating Numeric Relationships Using an Interactive Tool Covering Number Sense Concepts for the Middle Grades" (2010). Faculty Articles. 300.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_facarticles/300
