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1st grade · Math · Unit 6 of 16

Patterns

What comes next?

What your child practices

Finding the repeating part (the core) of patterns like AB, ABB and ABBC, including patterns where color and shape both change.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.9 · copying, extending and creating patterns

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some patterns grow. They go up by the same amount.
  2. Find how much it goes up each time.
  3. Use that to find the next one.

Example: 2, 4, 6, 8, ? Each number is 2 more. 8 + 2 = 10. Answer: 10

Patterns in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 6 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Equal or Not and before Measuring.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which part keeps repeating?

    ❤️❤️💙💙❤️❤️💙💙❤️❤️💙💙
    • ❤️ ❤️ 💙 💙
    • ❤️ ❤️ 💙
    • ❤️ ❤️ 💙 🔴

  2. Question 2

    Which one has the same pattern?

    🐟🐟🐚🐟🐟🐚
    • 🌲 🍄 🌲 🍄 🌲 🍄
    • 🌲 🌲 🍄 🌲 🌲 🍄
    • 🌲 🍄 🌸 🌲 🍄 🌸

  3. Question 3

    What comes next?

    🌲🍄🌸🌲🍄🌸🌲?
    • 🍄mushroom
    • 🌲tree
    • 🌸flower

  4. Question 4

    What is missing from the pattern?

    🐟🐟🐚🐚🐟🐟🐚🐚🐟❓🐚🐚
    • 🦀crab
    • 🐚shell
    • 🐟fish

  5. Question 5

    What changes in this pattern?

    🟧🟣🟧🟣🟧🟣
    • Color and shape
    • Only the shape
    • Only the color

  6. Question 6

    Which one has the same pattern?

    👏👏🦶👏👏🦶
    • 🐟 🐚 🐟 🐚 🐟 🐚
    • 🐟 🐟 🐚 🐟 🐟 🐚
    • 🐟 🐚 🐚 🐟 🐚 🐚

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