The students in Division 15 have been working on creating and extending two and three part patterns. They have used unifix cubes, chains and various manipulatives to create patterns. At the same time, they have been asked to look at given patterns and explain what comes next. They are also working on identifying the pattern core (the part that keeps repeating). At the same time, students are learning to translate their patterns and represent them in different ways. For example, is a student creates a red, green, red green pattern, they could represent the pattern using letters. The pattern would be a,b,a,b. They could also represent the same pattern as numbers, which would be 1, 2, 1, 2. You can support your child's learning at home by asking them to identify patterns around them (i.e. on clothes, curtains, wallpaper, etc.) or to create patterns using materials around them. Take a look at some of our Halloween patterns below!
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