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2nd grade · Math · Unit 4 of 17

Patterns

What comes next?

What your child practices

Finding the repeating core of a pattern and describing how increasing patterns grow (skip counting).

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.5 · extending, creating and describing patterns

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Look at how much each number changes.
  2. That change is the rule.
  3. Use the rule to find the next number.

Example: 5, 10, 15, 20, ? Each step adds 5. 20 + 5 = 25. Answer: 25

Patterns in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 4 of 17 in 2nd grade Math, after Adding to 100 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

    What comes next?

    ⭐🌙🌙⭐🌙🌙⭐🌙?
    • ⭐star
    • 🌙moon
    • ☀️sun

  2. Question 2

    What comes next?

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

  3. Question 3

    How many blocks will the next tower have?

    • 4
    • 1
    • 6

  4. Question 4

    What number comes next?

    10, 20, 30, 40,

    • 54
    • 45
    • 50

  5. Question 5

    What number comes next?

    5, 7, 9, 11,

    • 19
    • 11
    • 13

  6. Question 6

    What comes next?

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

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