C1.1 Identify and describe repeating and growing patterns, including patterns found in real-life contexts.
Activity 1: Detectives (Recognizing Repeating and Growing Patterns)
Directions
- Make tablets or cameras available for students to take pictures.
- Divide the class into teams. Give each team a tablet.
- Invite students to play detective and walk around the classroom or school to photograph situations that represent repeating or growing patterns.
- As a class, ask each team to present an example of each pattern and to justify their choice. Make sure that the students use the vocabulary associated with patterns (attributes, basic pattern, number of elements).
Suggestion: Once the activity is complete, save the students' photos to make a collage.
Activity 2: Illustrations (Repeating Patterns and Growing Patterns)
- Prepare a series of index cards with illustrations of objects or scenes.
- Group students into pairs. Invite students to discuss whether the illustration (or one of the objects in the illustration) represents a repeating pattern or a growing pattern and to justify their choice using the vocabulary associated with patterns (attributes, basic pattern, number of elements).
Examples of Cards
