Make patterns click for your students! These doodle notes provide a comprehensive overview of how to identify, analyze, and extend different types of mathematical patterns. Students will learn that patterns are not just random sequences but follow specific mathematical rules.

What's Included:

• Core Definition: Defines a pattern as a sequence of things that follows a specific rule.
  
  
• Repeating Patterns: Focused on identifying the "core pattern" (the group of items that repeats identically).
  
  
• Growing Patterns: Teaches students how patterns can get bigger each time by applying a consistent rule.
  
  
• Numeric Patterns: Practice with number sequences and identifying the operations used to get to the next number (e.g., $+2$ or $+1, +2, +3$).
  
  
• Shape Patterns: Visual patterns using geometric figures and color variations to show how the same shape can appear different.
  
  
• Critical Thinking Skill: Emphasizes the importance of checking the first several numbers in a pattern to ensure the rule is correct.
  
  

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

• 4.OA.C.5: Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself.

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