---
title: Pattern Pair Play
description: Students will create a numerical pattern using a given rule and apply to generate ordered pairs and explain the relationship between the numbers.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/pattern_pair_play-001.png
---

**Subject: Math**

**Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins**

**Topic: Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Analyze Patterns and Relationships of Ordered Pairs**

**Grade Level: 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.B.3](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will create a numerical pattern using a given rule and apply to generate ordered pairs. Students will explain the relationship between the numbers.

**Know Before You Start:** This lesson would be useful after an introduction to **numerical patterns** and **ordered pairs**.

**Hook:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic. 
    - What rule is Professor McBean’s machine following? 
    - Use the table linked in the Resources section to show the ordered pairs depicted in the comic.

**Activity:**

- Students will discuss and explain the relationship between the x and y in an ordered pair.
- Students can practice generating ordered pairs using two given rules, e.g., starting with 0, add 4 and starting with 0, add 6.
- Using the sample comic and the table as a guide, students will depict three ordered pairs in a comic. Have students explain the relationship between the numbers in the final panel.
- Have students create their own comic with a different numerical pattern.

**Closure:**

- Have students work in pairs to check their work.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to create their comic in their home language.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/q86mbyh).
- [Pairs Table](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbfAtmkqrzm2YNKRis4wcBJWw_Ih-Sjfo2zTsvQqywU/copy).

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- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531323277959168/thumbnail.png) Laboratory ](https://content.pixton.com/laboratory)

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