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Guess My Pattern
4 5 6 Pre & Primary Essentials Games & Activities Resources Mathematics Patterns & Algebras 9 Pages

Guess My Pattern

This class activity is part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit however can be adapted to suit Year 4 and Year 6 students exploring and consolidating number patterns of whole numbers. Students work in pairs, take turns to ask each other questions to try and work out each other’s patterns.

As a whole class activity where students work in groups of two or three.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to create and use algorithms using multiple steps to experiment with factors, multiples and divisibility and identify and describe emerging patterns.
  • We are learning to describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction, using the number line or diagrams to create patterns involving fractions or decimals.
  • We are learning to identify and create rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers.
  • We are learning to create and use algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that use rules to generate sets of numbers; identify, interpret and explain emerging patterns.
  • We are learning to continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals and to describe the rule used to create the sequence.

Curriculum alignment

MA3-1WM old Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions MA3-2WM old Selects and applies appropriate problem- solving strategies, including the use of digital technologies, in undertaking investigations MA3-4NA old Orders, reads and represents integers of any size and describes properties of whole numbers MA3-3WM old Gives a valid reason for supporting one possible solution over another MA3-8NA old Analyses and creates geometric and number patterns, constructs and completes number sentences, and locates points on the Cartesian plane MA3-2DS-01 new Investigates and classifies two-dimensional shapes, including triangles and quadrilaterals based on their properties MA3-RN-03 new Determines percentages of quantities, and finds equivalent fractions and decimals for benchmark percentage values MA3-RN-02 new Compares and orders decimals up to 3 decimal places MA3-RN-01 new Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent the properties of numbers MA3-AR-01 new Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems MA3-MR-01 new Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve multiplication and division problems MA3-MR-02 new Constructs and completes number sentences involving multiplicative relations, applying the order of operations to calculations
VCMNA219 Continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Describe the rule used to create the sequence VCMNA221 Design algorithms involving branching and iteration to solve specific classes of mathematical problems VCMNA181 Identify and describe factors and multiples of whole numbers and use them to solve problems VCMNA194 Follow a mathematical algorithm involving branching and repetition (iteration) VCMNA192 Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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