Activity Description Recognize patterns in a series of shapes, numbers, or letters. After determining the pattern, the student fills in the missing pieces. Three levels of difficulty are available.

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Pattern Generator

Place in mathematics curriculum:

• introduce the concept of patterns, further developed in the Coloring Multiples Pascal's Triangle and Sierpinski's Carpet activities.
• lead any classroom discussion of what patterns are and how to figure them out.
• develop critical thinking skills and logical reasoning ability.

This activity provides exploration of patterns using shapes, letters and numbers. This activity would work well in groups of 1 or 2 for about 15-20 minutes if you use the exploration questions and 10-15 minutes otherwise.

Preparations for this activity:

• explain different critical thinking approaches to figuring out the patterns, such as counting the shapes or colors, or looking for a visual pattern (lines or diagonals or other shapes occurring on the board).