For Edna Soto:


At this link you will find information about Pascal Triangle.




Here are a few areas they can explore.




1. The triangular numbers


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First see if they can discover through examination what the


pattern to the triangular numbers is (building triangles with


pennies then, counting the pennies is a good way).




Then see if they can draw a line through Pascal's triangle that


will intersect the triangular numbers in sequence.




Here is the link below:




http://www.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query="pascal+triangle"&redir=http://forum.swarthmore.edu/workshops/usi/pascal/pascal.links.html