Input Output Tables Teaching Resources
Add input/output tables to your teacher toolkit this school year with printable worksheets and activities ready to help your students develop their operations and algebraic thinking skills!
This collection of input-output table resources is teacher-created and has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure they're student-ready. Find curriculum-aligned resources for your math centers to help students meet Common Core and state-level standards.
What Are Input-Output Tables?
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Input-output tables represent the relationship between two variables, providing pairs of numbers follow a certain pattern or rule. The inputs are listed in the left column, and the outputs are listed in the right column.
How to Use Input-Output Tables
Whether students are learning coordinate graphing standards, creating ordered pairs, or determining missing values, input-output tables can help students organize and show relationships between different data points.
As an example, if a student is analyzing an input-output table with a missing value, they must determine the relationship between the numbers in the left-hand column and the right-hand column. It may be that each number is being multiplied by 5, divided by 3, etc. Once the rule has been established, students can then use this to calculate the missing value.
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5th Grade Math Review – Test Prep Packet
Encourage your students to work through 8 pages of 5th-grade math problems while charting their progress to measure their success.
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Graphing Numerical Equations – Google Slides Interactive Activity
Recognize and analyze patterns in graphs, input-output tables, and equations with this interactive activity.
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Number Pattern Task Cards – Addition and Subtraction
Practice identifying the rules of patterns, determining missing numbers, and interpreting word problems with this set of 36 task cards.
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Differentiated Number Pattern Worksheets
Practice completing number patterns and determining their rules with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Naming Number Patterns – Board Game
Identify the rule or missing numbers from an input-output table, number sequence, or word problem with this number patterns board game.
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5th Grade Algebraic Relationships Assessment
Assess student understanding of prime and composite numbers, numerical expressions, graphing numerical patterns, and more with this math assessment.
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Equations, Tables, and Graphs, Oh My! – Differentiated Worksheets
Use these differentiated worksheets to practice using equations to create patterns within input-output tables and graphs.
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Input-Output Tables and Graphing Task Cards
Practice reading input-output tables and plotting points in the first quadrant with this set of task cards.
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Graphing Using Input-Output Tables – Differentiated Worksheets
Use data from input-output tables to graph points with this set of differentiated worksheets.
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Creating Ordered Pairs From Input-Output Tables – Worksheet
Create ordered pairs from an input-output table and determine the rule for each table with this worksheet.
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Additive & Multiplicative Patterns – Worksheet
Recognize the difference between additive and multiplicative numerical patterns given in a table or graph with this worksheet.
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Multiplicative & Additive Patterns – Match-Up
Practice identifying equations and finding unknown values in input-output tables with this match-up activity.
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Fives Math Machine Division Worksheet
A worksheet to use when practicing basic division facts.
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Operations of Four Math Machine Worksheet
A worksheet to use when practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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Mystery Math Machine - Ways to Make Three Worksheet
A worksheet to use when learning about input-output tables.
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Plus One and Minus One Math Machine Worksheet
A worksheet to practice generating a number that is one more than or one less than another number.
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Make Two Math Machine Worksheet
A worksheet to use when practicing algebraic reasoning.