Grade 2 · Math · Unit 5 of 10
Patterns
What comes next?
What your child practises
Finding the repeating core of a pattern and describing how increasing patterns grow (skip counting).
NWT Curriculum learning standard: Repeating and increasing patterns
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practise.
- Look at how much each number changes.
- That change is the rule.
- Use the rule to find the next number.
Example: 5, 10, 15, 20, ? Each step adds 5. 20 + 5 = 25. Answer: 25
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What number comes next?
20, 25, 30, 35,
- 41
- 40
- 36
40
Hint: Each number goes up by 5. 35 + 5 = 40.
Question 2
Which part keeps repeating?
⭐🌙☀️⭐🌙☀️⭐🌙☀️- ⭐ 🌙 ☀️
- ☀️ 🌙 ⭐
- ⭐ 🌙
⭐ 🌙 ☀️
Hint: Find where the pattern starts over again. The part before that is the core.
Question 3
What number comes next?
4, 7, 10, 13,
- 18
- 16
- 15
16
Hint: Each number goes up by 3. 13 + 3 = 16.
Question 4
What comes next?
🐟🐚🐚🐟🐚🐚?- 🐟fish
- 🐚shell
- 🦀crab
🐟 fish
Hint: Say the pattern out loud: fish, shell, shell… What part repeats?
Question 5
What comes next?
🐟🐟🐚🐟🐟🐚🐟?- 🐚shell
- 🦀crab
- 🐟fish
🐟 fish
Hint: Say the pattern out loud: fish, fish, shell… What part repeats?
Question 6
How many blocks will the next tower have?
123??- 6
- 4
- 9
4
Hint: Each tower grows by 1 block. 3 + 1 = 4.