How do patterns help us predict future events and solve problems in the world around us?
Adaptive Perseverance: Students will demonstrate perseverance as they explore and solve complex pattern problems, understanding that several attempts may be needed to identify a pattern's rule.
Critical Thinking: Students will analyze patterns, looking beyond the obvious to understand underlying rules and predict future elements.
Collaboration: Students will work in teams to find and discuss patterns,
leveraging diverse perspectives to deepen understanding
What patterns can you find in the world around you, and how do they repeat?
How can identifying rules in patterns help us make predictions?
Why do some patterns change, and how can we adapt to understand new patterns?
Students will generate and analyze number or shape patterns following a given rule.
Students will identify features of the patterns not explicit in the rule.
Students will explain the reasoning behind the continuation of patterns, using examples from real-life scenarios.
4.OA.C.5 Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule "Add 3" and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.
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