Lesson 4

Describe Repeated Patterns

Est. Class Sessions: 2

Developing the Lesson

Part 2: Comparing Patterns

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You may decide to use connecting cubes in place of links because there are more colors and some students have an easier time putting together and taking apart the connecting cubes.

Make a pattern with a chain of links and hide it in a bag. Encourage students to identify the pattern as you pull it out of the bag link by link. Students should identify the pattern with alphabet notations. For example, a red, blue, green pattern would be an ABC pattern. Have students suggest another ABC pattern with links using different colors. Choose two different ABC patterns. Discuss the similarities and differences between them with the students.

Ask:

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  • What is the same about these two ABC Patterns? (They both use three colors; each color appears once in the pattern unit.)
  • What is different about them? (The colors are different or the colors appear in a different order.)

Ask students to create two AABB patterns. Discuss the similarities and differences between the patterns. Students should be able to generate a pattern if told the symbols and vice versa.

Assign the Twins page in the Student Activity Book.

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Use the Twins page in the Student Activity Book to assess students' abilities to identify and describe repeating patterns with lines of objects [E3]; identify the pattern unit in a repeating pattern [E5]; and represent patterns using objects, pictures, words, and symbols [E6].

Place links or connecting cubes in a learning center for students to play Guess My Pattern as described in Summarizing the Lesson to provide targeted practice with representing, identifying, extending, and recording repeating patterns [E3].

Student Guide:
Student Activity Book: 247
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