Series: Focus on the Child
Growing Patterns with Child 30
A student identifies a pattern of increasing quantity.
Focus on the Child videos are taken from one-on-one interviews with individual children. The interviews are designed to elicit evidence of children’s mathematical thinking. They are not teaching episodes or formal assessments.
Why is this important?
A plus-one growing pattern is easy for young children to recognize and extend because it’s the structure of our number system.
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Big Idea
The same pattern structure can be found in many different forms. Read More
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Big Idea
Patterns are sequences (repeating or growing) governed by a rule; they exist both in the world and in mathematics. Read More
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Common Core Alignment
Operations and Algebraic Thinking Read More
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Foundational Math Topics
Read more about Pattern
