Patterning

We have been working on patterning for the past few weeks.

Grade 1:
Big idea- identify, describe, and repeat patterns.

Grade 2: identify, describe, extend and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns
 The grade 2's have just started growing and shrinking patterns.

 

"In growing and shrinking patterns, the number of elements increases or decreases from one term to the next." (eworkshop, Patterning and Algebra p. 13)

 

Today we practiced with cubes, to create our own growing and shrinking patterns. Here are two examples of our work:

 

Ask your son/daughter to tell you which is a growing and which is a shrinking pattern!