Virginia SOL K.PFA.1.c
The Standard
Create and describe a repeating pattern using objects, colors, sounds, movements, or pictures.
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 arrange or perform a short unit, such as red, blue, blue, several times in the same order. They tell which part repeats and predict what comes next.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student independently makes a pattern that repeats at least three times. They identify the repeating unit, name its parts in order, and continue the pattern correctly.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may make a random sequence or a growing sequence instead of repeating the same unit. They may focus only on the last item rather than finding the full repeating part. Some name the colors or actions but cannot explain their order.
How to Assess It
- Show six blank boxes and say, "Use two colors to make a pattern that repeats three times. Box one repeating part." Ask the student to name the boxed part and say what comes next.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs colored cubes and ask them to build a two-color pattern, repeat it three times, and point to the repeating unit.
Perform clap, stomp, clap, stomp, then ask, "What repeats, and how could you change the pattern but keep it repeating?"
Play Pattern Copycat by having one student make a movement pattern and classmates copy it twice before naming the repeating unit.
Have students find a repeating design on clothing, floor tiles, or classroom borders, then sketch and label the part that repeats.
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Related Standards
- 3.PFA.1.d
Create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, and number lines.
- 2.PFA.1.c
Create a repeating or increasing pattern using various representations (e.g., objects, pictures, numbers).
- 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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