Math · Stage 1
Pattern makers: colours, objects and sounds
Copy, continue and make a repeating pattern with colours, objects or sounds, say what comes next, and describe and order it by what repeats.
✦ Math📘 Stage 1 · S1⏱ ~9 min🧒 Ages 5–6★ Free to start
copy, continue and make a repeating pattern with colours, objects or sounds, say what comes next, and describe and order it by what repeats
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What bead comes next?
Dewi sits at the market stall with a box of beads. She threads red, blue, red, blue. Her brother Arif asks, what bead comes next? Dewi knows, because the beads follow a rule you can say. Arif claps, stamps, claps and waits for her to join in. By the end I can copy, continue and make a pattern, and say what comes next.
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What your child will learn
1Warm up: sort, compare, count
2Two words: pattern and repeat
3Copy a pattern bead by bead
4Copy a clap rhythm
5Say what comes next
6Longer cores and odd ones out
7Make your own pattern
8Make, describe and check
9What repeats and what grows
10Fix the wrong ideas
11Order things by a rule
12New page L11a
13New page L11b
14Build and record a pattern
15Check your thinking
16What I can do
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A peek inside
Copy Dewi's bead string: red, blue, red, blue.
Look at the strip: red, blue, red, blue.<br>Put a red bead under the first red.<br>Put blue, then red, then blue under the next beads.<br>Match each pair: my row is red, blue, red, blue.
Try this at home: Copy Dewi's bead string: red, blue, red, blue.
Ready to play and learn?
Start the free interactive lesson, or print the handout for screen-free play.
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