Week 10 Lesson Plan
This lesson is called Just too Big it is for 3-4 grade. In this activity students create different sized “burgers” using two Cuisenaire Rods of the same color as the bun and one rod of a different color as the burger. In this activity students have the opportunity to describe a geometric pattern, connect a numerical pattern to a geometric pattern and extend and generalize a numerical pattern. Students work in partners to build “just too big burger” using Cuisenaire Rods. The class will make a list of all the just too big burgers they found. As children build “burgers” and compare their constructions, they learn to recognize and extend visual patterns. Some students may notice that for each bun there is only one burger. Another activity students can do is “just too small burgers” and compare the patterns they find to those for the just too big burgers.
