Math K-7 IRP Patterns and Relations (Patterns)

Students use patterns to describe the world around them and to solve problems.


Prescribed Learning Outcomes Illustrated Examples
It is expected that students will:
  • identify, create, and describe number and non-number patterns
    		• -> Colour the multiples of 2 on a hundred chart. Describe any patterns you see in your colouring. If you coloured the multiples of 5 on another hundred chart, how would your charts look alike? How would they look different?
  • translate patterns from one mode to another using manipulatives, diagrams, charts, calculators, spoken and written terms, and symbols
    		• -> Create a growing or repeating pattern. Describe your pattern in oral or written form. Give your description to a classmate. Ask your classmate to reproduce your pattern. Compare your patterns. Were they alike? Was your description clearly understood?
  • explain the rule for a pattern and make predictions based on patterns using models and objects
    		• -> Dana is using two colours of counters to build a pattern that "grows and grows."



    What is the name of the shape Dana is making? What can Dana do next to continue the pattern? Build on Dana's pattern and continue it for three more rows.

    Name the number of counters in each dark-coloured row. What is the same about these numbers? What other patterns can you see in this arrangement?
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