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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 6 of 13

Patterns

What comes next?

What your child practices

Spotting the part that repeats in patterns like AB, AAB, ABB and ABC, then predicting what comes next or what is missing.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: NY-K.OA.6 · copying, extending and making simple repeating patterns

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A pattern repeats the same part again and again.
  2. Find the part that repeats.
  3. Say it out loud to find what comes next.

Example: red, blue, red, blue, red, ? The part that repeats is red, blue. After red comes blue. Answer: blue

Patterns in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 6 of 13 in Kindergarten Math, after Shapes & Sizes and before Numbers to 20.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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 one is a pattern?

    • 🟡🔵🟡🔵🟡🔵
    • 🔵🔵🟡🟡🔵🟡
    • 🟡🟡🟡🔵🔵🔵

  2. Question 2

    What comes next?

    🍎🍌🍇🍎🍌🍇?
    • 🍌banana
    • 🍇grapes
    • 🍎apple

  3. Question 3

    Which part repeats?

    🐟🐟🦀🐟🐟🦀🐟🐟🦀
    • 🐟 🦀
    • 🐟 🐟 🦀
    • 🐟 🦀 🦀

  4. Question 4

    What do we do next?

    👣👏👏👣👏👏👣?
    • 🙌hands up
    • 👏clap
    • 👣stomp

  5. Question 5

    What comes next?

    💙💙💛💙💙💛💙?
    • 💙blue heart
    • 💛yellow heart
    • ❤️red heart

  6. Question 6

    What comes next?

    🟡🟡🔴🟡🟡🔴?
    • 🟡yellow
    • 🔴red
    • 🔵blue

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