Georgia K.PAR.6

K.PAR.6 is a Georgia mathematics standard. These are the expectations under it.

• K.PAR.6.1

  Create, extend, and describe repeating patterns with numbers and shapes, and explain the rationale for the pattern.

• K.PAR.6.2

  Describe patterns involving the passage of time using words and phrases related to actual events.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students find the part of a pattern that repeats, tell how it repeats, and add what comes next. They also create their own patterns and describe repeated events across time.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can identify the repeating unit, explain it, and continue the pattern correctly. The student can make a new pattern and describe familiar time cycles such as morning, afternoon, and night.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may copy nearby items instead of finding the repeating unit. They may continue a pattern by alternating everything, even when the unit has three or four parts. They may confuse a daily sequence with events that repeat over time.

04

How to Assess It

Give students the pattern red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue. Ask them to circle the repeating unit, add three items, create a new pattern, and name what follows nighttime.

1. 01

   Give pairs colored cubes to build, trade, explain, and extend patterns with repeating units of two, three, or four cubes.

2. 02

   Ask, “How do you know what comes next?” and have students explain using the words repeat, before, and after.

3. 03

   Play Pattern Detective by showing a pattern with one missing item and having students choose the correct picture card.

4. 04

   Track morning, afternoon, and night activities on a class chart, then discuss which events happen again each day.

• 2.PAR.4

  Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns.

• 1.PAR.3.1

  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,...

• 1.PAR.3

  Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns found in real-life situations.