Patterning

Patterning  involves 'identifying the form and order of a given arrangement of objects, describing the arrangement and repeating the arrangement' ( Irons, 1999.).
Children explore pattern on four levels; recognize, describe, extend and create pattern.

           
There are three types of patterning


Repeating patterns
This pattern required children to repeating the sequences such as red,blue,red,blue...

Repeating patterning: Colour and shape.

 Growing patterns
 1,2,3,4,5,6, or 2,4,6,8 or smaller to bigger

Growing patterning.

Click here for more example of growing pattern games.     How Does My Pattern Grow?
Growing patterns





Relationship patterns

It is where two numbers are linked using some sort of functions. This pattern is related with the multiplication operation.

Number of boxes	Number of crayons
1	8
2	16
3	24
4	32

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