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4th grade · Math · Unit 6 of 12

Patterns & Tables

Growing and shrinking patterns

What your child practices

Extending increasing and decreasing number patterns, naming pattern rules, finding rules in input/output tables, and describing how two quantities are related.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 4.3.7.3; 4.3.7.1 · making patterns that follow a rule, and writing a rule for a pattern

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A table lists each step and its number.
  2. Find how much the numbers change each step.
  3. Use that rule to carry on the pattern.

Example: A pattern starts at 4 and adds 3 each time. What is the 5th number? 4, 7, 10, 13, 16. The 5th number is 16. Answer: 16

Patterns & Tables in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 6 of 12 in 4th grade Math, after Decimals and before Equations.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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 is the pattern rule?

    207, 222, 237, 252

    • Start at 207. Add 15 each time.
    • Start at 207. Add 16 each time.
    • Start at 207. Subtract 15 each time.
    • Start at 222. Add 15 each time.

  2. Question 2

    Priya reads the same number of pages every day. How many pages will be left after day 5?

    DayPages left
    060
    151
    242
    333
    • 24
    • 6
    • 15
    • 33

  3. Question 3

    What number is missing?

    19, , 169, 244, 319

    • 94
    • 95
    • 84
    • 104

  4. Question 4

    For every 1 carton, there are 12 eggs. How many eggs are there for 12 cartons?

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  5. Question 5

    How many fingers are there for 6 hands?

    HandsFingers
    15
    210
    315
    420

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  6. Question 6

    What number comes next?

    445, 430, 415, 400,

    • 370
    • 395
    • 415
    • 385

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