Starter: Patterns
Copy & continue these three patterns on your mini-whiteboard:
1. l n l n l n ___
___ n
l ___
2. l l n n l ___ n ___
l ___ n
3. t n l t n ___ n
t ___
l ___
What goes in each of the boxes for these four patterns:
Growing Patters
How would these patterns continue?
l ll lll llll lllll
l l
l l l l l l
l l ll l ll l ll lll llll
l l l
l
l l
l l l
l ll l ll l l l l ll l l ll
l l l
l l
l l
l l
l l l
l l l l
l l l l l
l ll ll l l ll l ll ll l lll ll l
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Growing Patterns: Rules
Copy the patterns into your book and draw the next two shapes
Below the shapes, write down the number of squares in each
Describe the rule for getting the next number of squares
1.
Predict the number
of squares in the 6th
& 7th shapes without
drawing them
2.
Count the number
3. of squares on the
perimeter of each
shape – what is the
rule for each now?
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Continuing Patterns: Reviewing Answers
1 3 5 7 9
Rule: Add 2 Next two shapes: 11 13
Perimeter:
4 8 12 16 20
Rule: Add 4 Next two shapes: 24 28
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Continuing Patterns: Reviewing Answers
2 4 6 8 10
Rule: Add 2 Next two shapes: 12 14
Perimeter:
6 8 10 12 14
Rule: Add 2 Next two shapes: 16 18
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Continuing Patterns: Reviewing Answers
1 4 7 10 13
Rule: Add 3 Next two shapes: 16 19
Perimeter:
4 10 16 22 28
Rule: Add 6 Next two shapes: 34 40
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Numbers in the Patterns
Here is another pattern of matches Complete the
table for the first
three shapes
Copy the shapes and the table below Draw the next
two shapes and
Number of Number of
Perimeter update your
Triangles Matches
table
1 3 3
2
3
4 Can you predict the
5 table values for the 5th,
6th and 7th shape?
6 What about the 10th?
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