MTT

I found a couple interesting lesson plans for sixth grade. They make good use of a spreadsheet program to help students visualize divisibility patterns. The Divisibility lesson plan and the student worksheet are simple, but could be expanded for use with higher grade levels. The same teacher also created a lesson plan for finding Least Common Multiples. It also includes a student worksheet. The use of patterns is a great way to help younger students understand these concepts. Spreadsheets are excellent at creating and illustrating these patterns quickly. Another great use of spreadsheets is to teach sequences and series. Again the pattern theme comes into play, but this time for a much more abstract concept. I did not find a good lesson plan already written, but I found a tutorial about the Fibonacci sequence that inspired me to use a spreadsheet to work with sequences and recursive relationships.