Create a Pattern
This open-ended worksheet allows your students to create their own number patterns and rules that follow. They then swap their number patterns with a partner and work out each others’ rules for the number patterns. Students fold along the dotted lines to hide the rule. Once each partner is confident they know the rule, they can check the rule by unfolding the sheet.
Each student should use a recording sheet to record what rule they think each one is and refer to this when checking their answers.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to follow and create number sentences to investigate number patterns and rules and to find emerging patterns.
- We are learning to describe, continue and create number patterns and use addition and subtraction to identify the rule.
Curriculum alignment
MA2-1WM
old
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
MA2-2WM
old
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
MA2-3WM
old
Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used
MA2-8NA
old
Generalises properties of odd and even numbers, generates number patterns, and completes simple number sentences by calculating missing values
MA2-AR-01
new
Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers
MA2-AR-02
new
Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values
MA2-MR-01
new
Represents and uses the structure of multiplicative relations to 10 × 10 to solve problems
MA2-MR-02
new
Completes number sentences involving multiplication and division by finding missing values
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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