Grade 1 · Math · Unit 6 of 10
Patterns
What comes next?
What your child practises
Finding the repeating part (the core) of patterns like AB, ABB and ABBC, including patterns where colour and shape both change.
Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Patterns and Relations · repeating patterns, and translating them from one form to another
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practise.
- Some patterns grow. They go up by the same amount.
- Find how much it goes up each time.
- Use that to find the next one.
Example: 2, 4, 6, 8, ? Each number is 2 more. 8 + 2 = 10. Answer: 10
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 comes next?
🌲🌲🍄🍄🌲🌲🍄🍄🌲?- 🍄mushroom
- 🌲tree
- 🌸flower
🌲 tree
Hint: Say the pattern out loud: tree, tree, mushroom, mushroom… then it starts again!
Question 2
What comes next?
❤️❤️💙💙❤️❤️💙💙❤️❤️💙💙?- 💙blue heart
- 🔴red circle
- ❤️red heart
❤️ red heart
Hint: Say the pattern out loud: red heart, red heart, blue heart, blue heart… then it starts again!
Question 3
What changes in this pattern?
🟨❤️❤️🟨❤️❤️🟨❤️- Only the colour
- Colour and shape
- Only the shape
Colour and shape
Hint: Look at the colours first. Then look at the shapes. Which ones change?
Question 4
Which part keeps repeating?
🍎🍌🍇🍎🍌🍇🍎🍌🍇- 🍎 🍌 🍇
- 🍎 🍌 🍎
- 🍎 🍌
🍎 🍌 🍇
Hint: Find where the pattern starts over again. The part before that repeats.
Question 5
Which one has the same pattern?
👏🦶🦶👏🦶🦶- 🌲 🌲 🍄 🌲 🌲 🍄
- 🌲 🍄 🌲 🍄 🌲 🍄
- 🌲 🍄 🍄 🌲 🍄 🍄
🌲 🍄 🍄 🌲 🍄 🍄
Hint: Use letters: call the first thing A and the next new thing B. Which one sounds the same?
Question 6
Which one has the same pattern?
⭐🌙🌙⭐🌙🌙- 🐟 🐚 🐚 🐟 🐚 🐚
- 🐟 🐚 🐟 🐚 🐟 🐚
- 🐟 🐚 🦀 🐟 🐚 🦀
🐟 🐚 🐚 🐟 🐚 🐚
Hint: Use letters: call the first thing A and the next new thing B. Which one sounds the same?