Make a Pattern
Patterns are early maths wearing a disguise — repeating, alternating and growing are all pattern rules children meet again years later with numbers.
Before you print: Print one per child. Two colours is often better than eight.
Make a Pattern
Make the pattern carry on all the way across.
Name
- Two colours, taking turns
- Three colours, taking turns
- Stripes
- Spots
- Big, small, big, small
- Dark then light
- A pattern with a mistake in it
- Your own pattern
- The same pattern backwards
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