One way to think more precisely about how a pattern works is to identify its rule. This helps children begin to extend their thinking from one situation to another.
© Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative. Reprinted from Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (2014), Pearson Education.
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A child is pushed to decipher the repeating pattern in an array of blocks. Then he attempts to continue the pattern.
This second grader extends a shape pattern to ordinal numbers.
A child attempts to duplicate a pattern using colored blocks.
A child makes patterns using keys.
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