Pattern Detectives: What Comes Next?

Math Grades 1st Grade 4:46 Video
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Lesson Description

Learn to identify and extend patterns using colors, shapes, and objects. This lesson will help you become a pattern detective!

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Learn Grade 1 - Maths - What Comes Next

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Key Concepts

  • Patterns
  • Repeating Units
  • Prediction

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify repeating patterns.
  • Students will be able to predict the next element in a given pattern.
  • Students will be able to create their own simple patterns.

Educator Instructions

  • Introduction (5 mins)
    Begin by asking students what they know about patterns. Show some examples of patterns in the classroom (e.g., tiles on the floor, colors in a rug). Introduce the idea that patterns repeat.
  • Video Viewing (5 mins)
    Watch the "Learn Grade 1 - Maths - What Comes Next" video. Encourage students to pay attention to how patterns are identified and extended in the video.
  • Pattern Practice (10 mins)
    After the video, review the patterns shown. Ask students to identify the repeating unit in each pattern. Then, present new patterns on the board or using manipulatives (e.g., colored blocks, beads) and have students predict what comes next.
  • Create Your Own Pattern (10 mins)
    Provide students with materials (e.g., crayons, markers, construction paper, blocks, beads). Ask each student to create their own pattern. Have them share their patterns with a partner and explain the repeating unit.
  • Wrap Up (5 mins)
    Review the key concepts of patterns and repeating units. Emphasize that patterns are everywhere and help us predict what comes next.

Interactive Exercises

  • Color Block Patterns
    Use colored blocks to create patterns (e.g., red-blue-red-blue). Have students extend the pattern by adding the next block. Increase the complexity of the patterns as students progress (e.g., red-blue-green-red-blue-green).
  • Shape Sorting Patterns
    Use different shapes (e.g., circles, squares, triangles) to create patterns. Have students identify the repeating unit and predict the next shape.

Discussion Questions

  • Where have you seen patterns in your life?
  • Why is it helpful to be able to recognize patterns?
  • Can you think of a pattern that uses sounds instead of colors or shapes?

Skills Developed

  • Pattern Recognition
  • Logical Reasoning
  • Prediction
  • Critical Thinking

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

What is a pattern?

Correct Answer: Something that repeats

Question 2:

What comes next: red, blue, red, blue, _____?

Correct Answer: Red

Question 3:

What comes next: circle, square, circle, square, _____?

Correct Answer: Circle

Question 4:

If the pattern is cat, dog, cat, what animal is next?

Correct Answer: Dog

Question 5:

What comes next: apple, banana, apple, ______?

Correct Answer: Banana

Question 6:

What repeating unit is in the pattern: sun, moon, star, sun, moon, star?

Correct Answer: sun, moon, star

Question 7:

What comes next: one, two, one, two, _____?

Correct Answer: One

Question 8:

If a pattern is big, small, big, what comes next?

Correct Answer: Small

Question 9:

What comes next in this color pattern: green, yellow, green, ______?

Correct Answer: Yellow

Question 10:

Look at this shape pattern: Triangle, square, circle, triangle, _____. What shape is next?

Correct Answer: Square

Fill in the Blank Questions

Question 1:

A pattern is something that _________.

Correct Answer: repeats

Question 2:

In the pattern red, blue, red, blue, red, what color comes next? _________

Correct Answer: blue

Question 3:

If the pattern is cat, dog, cat, dog, what comes next? _______

Correct Answer: cat

Question 4:

Circle, square, circle, _________, circle.

Correct Answer: square

Question 5:

Apple, banana, apple, banana, _________.

Correct Answer: apple

Question 6:

One, two, three, one, two, _________.

Correct Answer: three

Question 7:

A pattern has a repeating _________.

Correct Answer: unit

Question 8:

Big, small, big, _________ is the next step in the pattern.

Correct Answer: small

Question 9:

The pattern shows yellow, then green. What comes after the green? __________

Correct Answer: yellow

Question 10:

Triangle, square, _________ is the last shape in the pattern.

Correct Answer: circle

Educational Standards

CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1:Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. CCSS.Math.Content.1.G.A.2:Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape. (Students do not need to learn formal names such as 'right rectangular prism.') CCSS.Math.Content.1.MD.C.4:Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

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