This packet has everything you need to teach your 3rd graders to identify, describe, create, and extend increasing and decreasing patterns. Included are practice pages, task cards, exit tickets, and more. This packet is specifically aligned to Virginia SOL 3.PFA.1.

Specific concepts included in this packet are:

• Using pictures, numbers, and number lines to identify, describe, and extend increasing and decreasing patterns
• Solving contextual pattern problems

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• Superhero Place Value (SOL 3.NS.1)
• Camping Out with Comparing and Ordering (SOL 3.NS.2)
• Rockin' Fractions (SOL 3.NS.3)
• It's All About the Money (SOL 3.NS.4)
• Secret Agent Estimation (SOL 3.CE.1a-b)
• Robot Rounding (SOL 3.CE.1b)
• Addition and Subtraction Campout (SOL 3.CE.1c)
• Kickin' It With Multiplication and Division (SOL 3.CE.2a-d, f)
• Equality Rodeo (SOLs 3.CE.1d and 3.CE.2g)
• Digging Into Word Problems (SOLs 3.CE.1e and 3.CE.2e)
• All About Measurement (SOL 3.MG.1)
• Learning About Perimeter and Area (SOL 3.MG.2)
• Telling Time (SOL 3.MG.3)
• Cooking Up Polygons (SOL 3.MG.4)
• Diving Deeper into Patterns (SOL 3.PFA.1)
• All About Graphs (SOL 3.PS.1)
• Math Exit Tickets

Here's a look inside:

•Page 3: Patterns Pretest

•Pages 4-22: Diving Deeper into Patterns Booklet

•Pages 23-24: What Type of Pattern? Sort (repeating vs. increasing)

•Pages 25-26: What Type of Pattern? Sort (increasing vs. decreasing)

•Pages 27-35: Describing Patterns (finding the rule for increasing/decreasing)

•Pages 36-43: What’s the Rule? Sorts (4 options)

•Pages 44-49: Create the Pattern

•Pages 50-70: Extending Patterns (includes pages for just increasing, just decreasing, and mixed increasing and decreasing, also include pages with number lines)

•Pages 71-86: What’s Missing? (includes pages for just increasing, just decreasing, and mixed increasing and decreasing, also include pages with number lines)

•Pages 87-88: If It Continues…

•Pages 89-96: Patterns in the World (4 pages include pattern contextual problems with tables and 4 pages include pattern contextual problems without tables)

•Pages 97-100: Patterns Practice

•Pages 101-117: Exit Tickets

•Pages 118-121: What’s the Rule? Match (Increasing and Decreasing Patterns; Students match the pattern with its rule.)

•Pages 122-127: Patterns Task Cards, Set 1 (What Comes Next? with increasing patterns; includes answer key)

•Pages 128-133: Patterns Task Cards, Set 2 (What Comes Next? with decreasing patterns; includes answer key)

•Pages 134-139: Patterns Task Cards, Set 3 (What’s the Rule? with increasing and decreasing patterns; includes answer key)

•Pages 140-145: Patterns Task Cards, Set 4 (contextual problems; includes answer key)