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Repeating Patterns: Find the Part That Repeats

  • Grade 1
  • Mathematics
  • 1 min 3 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-MA-10

A row of red circles and blue squares is named aloud, split into the part that repeats (red circle, red circle, blue square), and counted as three things, so red circle comes next. The pattern is then named with letters as A, A, B and checked, and two more rows show an A, B pattern and an A, B, C pattern with a green triangle.

Concept: Repeating patterns: find the part that repeats and what comes next

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The question this lesson answers

What comes next in this pattern?

Say each colour and each shape. Red circle, red circle, blue square.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What comes next in this pattern?

Say each colour and each shape. Red circle, red circle, blue square.

Then again: red circle, red circle, blue square.

These three things make the part that repeats.

Each part has three things: one, two, three.

After blue square, it starts again. Red circle is next!

Red circle is A. Blue square is B.

So this is an A, A, B pattern.

Let's check it: A, A, B, A, A, B, A.

Red circle, blue square: that is A, B.

Now add a green triangle: A, B, C.

Find the part that repeats. Then you know what comes next!

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Mathematics, Patterns and algebra: repeating patterns with multiple elements and attributesBC1-MA-10

Next: 7 and 3 More Makes 10

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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