Patterns everywhere
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Make a bead or button pattern with two colours or kinds. Make at least 8 in a row. Tell your family the part that repeats.
Any two-part pattern that repeats, such as red, blue, red, blue.
2
Carry on the pattern: 2, 4, 6, 8, __, __
10, 12.
3
What comes next?
An apple. The part that repeats is mango, mango, apple.
4
Make a snack pattern on a plate with two kinds of food, such as peanut, raisin, peanut, raisin. Ask your family what comes next before you eat it.
Any two-part pattern, with the next item named correctly.
5
Look at a cloth border, a floor tile or a sari border at home. What is the part that repeats?
Any sensible part that repeats.