Virginia SOL 2.PFA.1.d
The Standard
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.
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 find the repeating unit or addition rule in a pattern. They show the same pattern with different materials, pictures, or numbers and explain how the parts match.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can change an AAB color pattern into an AAB sound or shape pattern. The student can also show 2, 4, 6 with objects and explain that each step adds two.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy the colors or objects without preserving the repeating unit or growth rule. They may extend a pattern instead of showing it in a new form, or change the amount added between steps.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Show red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue with letters, then draw 2, 4, 6 as groups of dots. Explain how each new pattern matches the given one.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build red-blue-blue with cubes, transfer it to circle-square-square cards, and explain how the positions match.
Compare dot groups of 3, 5, and 7 with the number pattern, then write what changes and what stays the same.
Play Pattern Translator: draw a pattern card, rebuild it using a different material, and earn a point for explaining the match.
Photograph a classroom border, redraw its repeating pattern with letters, and mark the part that repeats.
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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.b
Analyze a repeating or increasing pattern and generalize the change to extend the pattern using objects, pictures, and numbers.
- 1.PFA.1.d
Transfer a repeating or increasing pattern from one form to another.
- 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.
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