This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of patterns. Students are provided opportunities to:
copy, continue and create patterns in a variety of forms
identify part-whole relationships in numbers up to 10
use visual representation to assist in combing and separating quantities.
Before engaging in these teaching and learning activities, students would benefit from prior experience with:
recognising patterns in a story or in songs and rhymes
sorting and classifying objects by attributes
identify part-whole combinations up to 5