Virginia SOL 1.PFA.1.d
The Standard
Transfer a repeating or increasing pattern from one form to another.
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will identify, describe, extend, create, and transfer repeating patterns and increasing patterns using various representations.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find the part that repeats or the rule that makes a pattern grow. They show the same pattern with different objects, pictures, sounds, movements, or numbers.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can change a pattern from cubes to drawings, sounds, movements, or numbers without changing its structure. They can explain what repeats or how each step grows.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy the colors or objects instead of keeping the same order in a new form. They may add items randomly to an increasing pattern rather than follow its growth rule.
How to Assess It
- Show red-blue-blue-red-blue-blue, then ask students to transfer it into a sound or movement pattern and explain how the two patterns match.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build a red-blue-blue pattern with cubes, then transfer it to clap-stomp-stomp and repeat both for four units.
Show a growing cube train and ask, “What changes each step, and how could you draw the same growth?”
Play Pattern Match by pairing cards that show the same pattern with colors, shapes, movements, or growing groups.
Study a tiled border or stairway, then recreate its repeating or increasing structure with classroom objects.
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Related Standards
- 2.PFA.1.c
Create a repeating or increasing pattern using various representations (e.g., objects, pictures, numbers).
- 2.PFA.1.d
Transfer a given repeating or increasing pattern from one form to another (e.g., objects, pictures, numbers) and explain the connection between the two patterns...
- 1.PFA.1.b
Analyze a repeating or increasing pattern and generalize the change to extend the pattern using objects, colors, movements, pictures, or geometric figures.
- 1.PFA.1.c
Create a repeating or increasing pattern using objects, pictures, movements, colors, or geometric figures.
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