Virginia SOL 2.PFA.1.c
The Standard
Create a repeating or increasing pattern using various representations (e.g., objects, pictures, numbers).
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will describe, extend, create, and transfer repeating and increasing patterns (limited to addition of whole numbers) using various representations.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students design a pattern with a clear rule. They may repeat a unit such as red, blue, blue, or increase quantities by the same amount each step.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student independently makes at least five correct terms and explains the rule. Each term follows the same repeating unit or addition rule.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may change the repeating unit midway or stop after showing it only once. In increasing patterns, they may add different amounts or confuse larger object size with a greater number of objects.
How to Assess It
- Give each student 20 counters and paper. Say, “Make a pattern that repeats or grows by 2, show five terms, draw it, and write the rule.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs colored cubes to build an original repeating unit, repeat it four times, then record the pattern with colored squares.
Show three student-made patterns and ask, “What is each rule, and how do you know every term follows it?”
Play Pattern Challenge: students draw a card labeled repeat, add 1, add 2, or add 5, then create six matching terms.
Use a bead bracelet design and a stair step seating chart to create one repeating pattern and one increasing number pattern.
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Related Standards
- 3.PFA.1.d
Create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, and number lines.
- K.PFA.1.c
Create and describe a repeating pattern using objects, colors, sounds, movements, or pictures.
- 1.PFA.1
The student will identify, describe, extend, create, and transfer repeating patterns and increasing patterns using various representations.
- 1.PFA.1.c
Create a repeating or increasing pattern using objects, pictures, movements, colors, or geometric figures.
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