Virginia SOL K.PFA.1.a
The Standard
Identify and describe the core found in repeating patterns.
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will identify, describe, extend, and create simple repeating patterns using various representations.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find the smallest group of colors, shapes, objects, sounds, or movements that repeats. They name each part of that group in order.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can mark one complete unit in patterns such as AB, AAB, ABB, and ABC. The student names the items in order and explains that the same unit repeats.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may circle several repeats instead of the smallest repeating unit. They may think every pattern must alternate two items, or name only one item in the unit.
How to Assess It
- Show ○ □ □ ○ □ □ ○ □ □. Ask each student to circle the smallest group that repeats and describe it aloud.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs red and blue cubes, then have them build AB, AAB, and ABB rows and place a craft stick under one repeat.
Show a bead pattern and ask, “What is the smallest part that repeats, and how do you know?”
Play Pattern Detective by displaying pattern cards and having students clip a clothespin under one complete repeating unit.
Examine striped shirts, floor tiles, or classroom borders, then have students point to and describe one complete repeating unit.
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Related Standards
- 2.PFA.1.a
Identify and describe repeating and increasing patterns.
- 1.PFA.1.a
Identify and describe repeating and increasing patterns.
- 1.PFA.1
The student will identify, describe, extend, create, and transfer repeating patterns and increasing patterns using various representations.
- K.PFA.1.b
Extend a repeating pattern by adding at least two complete repetitions of the core to the pattern.
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