Georgia 1.PAR.3.1
The Standard
Investigate, create, and make predictions about repeating patterns with a core of up to 3 elements resulting from repeating an operation, as a series of shapes, or a number string.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards · Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns found in real-life situations.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find the smallest repeating unit in shape and number patterns with one, two, or three parts. They create, continue, and predict patterns, including number strings made by repeating an operation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a pattern, a student marks the shortest core and names how many parts it has. The student extends it accurately, creates a new example, and explains a prediction using the core or repeated operation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may circle the entire displayed pattern instead of the smallest core, or continue by looking only at the last item. In number strings, they may repeat the numbers instead of repeating the operation.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Show △ ○ □ △ ○ □ and ask students to circle one core and draw the next three shapes. Then show 1, 3, 5, 7 and ask for the next two numbers and the repeated operation.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three colors of linking cubes; one builds a repeating pattern, covers three cubes, and the partner predicts what is hidden.
Show red, blue, yellow, red, blue, yellow; ask, “What is the smallest repeating part, and how can it predict the next color?”
Play Operation Relay: teams start at 1, repeat +1, +2 on number cards, and race to write the next six numbers correctly.
Photograph repeating designs on classroom borders, clothing, or floor tiles, then label the core and sketch the next part.
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Related Standards
- K.PAR.6
Explain, extend, and create repeating patterns with a repetition, not exceeding 4 and describe patterns involving the passage of time.
- 2.PAR.4
Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns.
- K.PAR.6.1
Create, extend, and describe repeating patterns with numbers and shapes, and explain the rationale for the pattern.
- 2.PAR.4.1
Identify, describe, and create a numerical pattern resulting from repeating an operation such as addition and subtraction.
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