Math · Stage 1

Shape patterns: complete, describe and change

Find, complete and make patterns with shapes by changing shape, size, colour or turn.

✦ Math📘 Stage 1 · S1⏱ ~9 min🧒 Ages 5–6★ Free to start

find, complete and make patterns with shapes by changing shape, size, colour or turn

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The Hidden Shape

Ayu sits at the market with her aunt. A batik cloth has a border of shapes. It goes circle, square, circle, square, circle. Then a stain hides the next shape. Ayu wonders which shape is under the stain. Her aunt smiles and says the border follows a rule. How can Ayu find the hidden shape? By the end I can find the rule in a shape pattern and finish or make my own.

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What your child will learn

1Remember your shapes

2Six words for shape patterns

3Find the repeating part

4Another border to read

5Name it and sort it

6Say a pattern in words

7Mixed patterns with three shapes

8A shape that shows twice

9Complete the end of a row

10Draw two more in a three-shape row

11Fill a gap in a window border

12A gap in a tile floor

13What changes in the pattern

14Two things change together

15Make your own change pattern

16Describe each change

17Clinic: fix four wrong ideas

18Make a shape pattern border

19Check your thinking

20I can do shape patterns

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A peek inside

A tile border goes circle, square, circle, square, circle, square. Box the repeating part and name the pattern.

Look: the group circle, square comes round again.<br>Box circle, square. It has 2 shapes.<br>The border repeats this group 3 times.<br>Answer: the repeating part is circle, square, so it is a circle, square pattern.

Try this at home: A tile border goes circle, square, circle, square, circle, square. Box the repeating part and name the pattern.

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